Usually means: Space before text begins horizontally.
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We found 39 dictionaries that define the word indent:

General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. indent: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. indent, indent: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. indent, indent: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. indent: Collins English Dictionary
  5. indent: Vocabulary.com
  6. Indent, indent: Wordnik
  7. indent: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. indent: Wiktionary
  9. indent: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. indent: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. indent: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. indent: Dictionary.com
  13. indent (v.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. indent: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Indent (Unix), Indent: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Indent: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. indent: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. indent: Rhymezone
  19. indent: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. indent: Dictionary/thesaurus
  21. Indent: Dictionary.com
  22. Indent: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  23. indent: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  24. indent: Free Dictionary

Art (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. ODLIS: Online Dictionary of Library and Information Science (No longer online)
  2. English-Chinese Dictionary of Graphic Communications (Big 5) (No longer online)
  3. Shakespeare Glossary (No longer online)

Business (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. indent: Legal dictionary
  2. Glossary of Trade and Shipping Terms (No longer online)
  3. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. indent: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. indent: CCI Computer
  3. indent: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Science (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Indent: The Orchid Lady's Illustrated Orchid Encyclopedia
  2. Glossary of Roots of Botanical Names (No longer online)

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Urban Conservation Glossary (No longer online)

(Note: See indented as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  A cut or notch in the margin of anything, or a recess like a notch.
noun:  A stamp; an impression.
noun:  A certificate, or intended certificate, issued by the government of the United States at the close of the Revolution, for the principal or interest of the public debt.
noun:  A requisition or order for supplies, sent to the commissariat of an army.
verb:  (transitive) To notch; to jag; to cut into points like a row of teeth
verb:  (intransitive) To be cut, notched, or dented.
verb:  To dent; to stamp or to press in; to impress
verb:  (historical) To cut the two halves of a document in duplicate, using a jagged or wavy line so that each party could demonstrate that their copy was part of the original whole.
verb:  (intransitive, reflexive, obsolete) To enter into a binding agreement by means of such documents; to formally commit (to doing something); to contract.
verb:  (transitive, obsolete) To engage (someone), originally by means of indented contracts.
verb:  (typography) To begin (a line or lines) at a greater or lesser distance from the margin. See indentation, and indention. Normal indent pushes in a line or paragraph. "Hanging indent" pulls the line out into the margin.
verb:  (obsolete, intransitive) To crook or turn; to wind in and out; to zigzag.
verb:  (military, India, dated) To make an order upon; to draw upon, as for military stores.

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