different between indentation vs indented

English

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -e???n

Noun

indentation (countable and uncountable, plural indentations)

1. The act of indenting or state of being indented.
2. A notch or recess, in the margin or border of anything

3. A recess or sharp depression in any surface.
5. (typography) The act of beginning a line or series of lines at a little distance within the flush line of the column or page, as in the common way of beginning the first line of a paragraph.
6. A measure of the distance from the flush line

7. (law) A division unit of a piece of law distinguished by its indentation or by a dash

   ?Synonym: indent

Antonyms

• protrusion

Derived terms

• macroindentation
• microindentation
• nanoindentation

Translations

French

Etymology

Latin indent?ti?, from indent? (“indent”)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??.d??.ta.sj??/

Noun

indentation f (plural indentations)

1. indentation

Further reading

• “indentation” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

English

Verb

indented

1. simple past tense and past participle of indent

Adjective

indented (comparative more indented, superlative most indented)

1. Cut in the edge into points or inequalities, like teeth; jagged; notched; stamped in; dented on the surface.
2. Having an uneven, irregular border; sinuous; undulating.
   • 1599, William Shakespeare, As You Like It, Act IV, Scene 3,^[3]

     Seeing Orlando, it [the snake] unlinked itself

     And with indented glides did slip away

     Into a bush;

   • 1667, John Milton, Paradise Lost, Book 8, lines 494-497,^[4]

     So spake the Enemie of Mankind, enclos’d

     In Serpent, Inmate bad, and toward Eve

     Address’d his way, not with indented wave,

     Prone on the ground, as since, but on his reare,

3. (heraldry) Notched like the part of a saw consisting of the teeth; serrated.

4. Bound out by an indenture; apprenticed; indentured.

5. (zoology) Notched along the margin with a different color, like the feathers of some birds.

Synonyms

• (cut in the edge into points): erose, serrated; see also Thesaurus:notched

Anagrams

• detinned, intended