0 present participle of indent --
1 to make a space at the edge or on the surface of something: --
Each new paragraph should be indented about two centimetres from the margin.
Instead of using a shearing action as with scissors, diagonal pliers cut by indenting and wedging the wire apart.
It featured automatic indenting, pretty-printing of source code, and integration with the compiler environment.
Threaded forums can display relationships between message topics and associated replies, such as by indenting replies and placing them below the post they reference.
Furthermore, indenting the braces emphasizes that they are subordinate to the control statement.
With a hard enter, paragraph-break formatting may be applied (either indenting or vertical whitespace).
As a result, techniques testing material hardness by indenting a material with an impression have been developed to determine such properties.
By late 1929, instantaneous recordings were being made by indenting, as opposed to engraving, a groove into the surface of a bare aluminum disc.
By indenting the sides of the structure three feet, he opened a slender airshaft between abutting buildings.
