Synonyms of the word indentation


INDENTATIONCONCAVITY - CORRODING - CORROSION - EROSION - INCURVATION - INDENT - INDENTION - INDENTURE - PITTING - PLACE - ROUGHNESS - SPACE

indentation

  • n. The act of indenting or state of being indented.
  • n. A notch or recess, in the margin or border of anything.
  • n. A recess or sharp depression in any surface.
  • n. (typography) The act of beginning a line or series of lines at a little distance within the flush line…
  • n. A measure of the distance from the flush line.

concavity

  • n. (uncountable) The state of being concave.
  • n. (countable) A concave structure or surface.

corroding

  • v. present participle of corrode.
  • n. corrosion.

corrosion

  • n. The act of corroding or the condition so produced.
  • n. A substance (such as rust) so formed.
  • n. (chemistry) Erosion by chemical action, especially oxidation.
  • n. (by extension) The gradual destruction or undermining of something.

erosion

  • n. (uncountable) The result of having been worn away or eroded, as by a glacier on rock or the sea on a cliff…
  • n. (uncountable) The changing of a surface by mechanical action, friction, thermal expansion contraction,…
  • n. (uncountable, figuratively) The gradual loss of something as a result of an ongoing process.
  • n. (uncountable) Destruction by abrasive action of fluids.
  • n. (mathematics, image processing) One of two fundamental operations in morphological image processing from…
  • n. (dentistry) Loss of tooth enamel due to non-bacteriogenic chemical processes.
  • n. (medicine) A shallow ulceration or lesion, usually involving skin or epithelial tissue.

incurvation

  • n. The act of acquiring or being given a curved form; a curving or bending; any instance of this.
  • n. (obsolete) Bowing in reverence or worship.
  • n. The state of being curved or bent; any curved shape or formation; curvature; a curve; a bend.
  • n. A curving inwards; the condition of being curved inwards.

indent

  • n. A cut or notch in the margin of anything, or a recess like a notch.
  • n. A stamp; an impression.
  • n. A certificate, or intended certificate, issued by the government of the United States at the close of…
  • n. A requisition or order for supplies, sent to the commissariat of an army.
  • v. (transitive) To notch; to jag; to cut into points like a row of teeth.
  • v. (intransitive) To be cut, notched, or dented.
  • v. To dent; to stamp or to press in; to impress.
  • v. (historical) To cut the two halves of a document in duplicate, using a jagged or wavy line so that each…
  • v. (intransitive, obsolete) To enter into a binding agreement by means of such documents; to formally commit…
  • v. (transitive, obsolete) To engage (someone), originally by means of indented contracts.
  • v. (typography) To begin (a line or lines) at a greater or lesser distance from the margin. See indentation,…
  • v. (obsolete, intransitive) To crook or turn; to wind in and out; to zigzag.
  • v. (military, India, dated) To make an order upon; to draw upon, as for military stores.

indention

  • n. The act of indenting a line of text by including blank space at the beginning.

indenture

  • n. (law) A contract which binds a person to work for another, under specified conditions, for a specified…
  • n. (law) A document, written as duplicates separated by indentations, specifying such a contract.
  • n. An indentation.
  • v. To bind a person under such a contract.
  • v. To indent; to make hollows, notches, or wrinkles in; to furrow.

pitting

  • v. present participle of pit.
  • n. The formation of pits on a surface because of corrosion.

place

  • n. (physical) An area; somewhere within an area.
  • n. A location or position in space.
  • n. A particular location in a book or document, particularly the current location of a reader.
  • n. (obsolete) A passage or extract from a book or document.
  • n. (obsolete, rhetoric) A topic.
  • n. A frame of mind.
  • n. (chess, obsolete) A chess position; a square of the chessboard.
  • n. (social) A responsibility or position in an organization.
  • n. (obsolete) A fortified position: a fortress, citadel, or walled town.
  • n. Numerically, the column counting a certain quantity.
  • n. Ordinal relation; position in the order of proceeding.
  • n. Reception; effect; implying the making room for.
  • v. (transitive) To put (an object or person) in a specific location.
  • v. (intransitive) To earn a given spot in a competition.
  • v. (transitive) To remember where and when (an object or person) has been previously encountered.
  • v. (transitive, passive) To achieve (a certain position, often followed by an ordinal) as in a horse race.
  • v. (transitive) To sing (a note) with the correct pitch.
  • v. (transitive) To arrange for or to make (a bet).
  • v. (transitive) To recruit or match an appropriate person for a job.
  • v. (sports, transitive) To place-kick (a goal).

roughness

  • n. The property of being rough, coarseness.

space

  • n. (heading) Of time.
  • n. (heading) Unlimited or generalized physical extent.
  • n. (heading) A bounded or specific physical extent.
  • v. (obsolete, intransitive) To roam, walk, wander.
  • v. (transitive) To set some distance apart.
  • v. To insert or utilise spaces in a written text.
  • v. (transitive) To eject into outer space, usually without a space suit.

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