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Found 2 hits - Term: hanging indentation, Database: *, Strategy: prefix
[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
hanging \hang"ing\, a.
   1. requiring, deserving, or foreboding death by the halter.
      "what a hanging face" --dryden.
      1913 webster

   2. suspended from above; pendent; as, hanging shelves.
      1913 webster

   3. adapted for sustaining a hanging object; as, the hanging
      post of a gate, the post which holds the hinges.
      1913 webster

   hanging compass, a compass suspended so that the card may
      be read from beneath.

   hanging garden, a garden sustained at an artificial
      elevation by any means, as by the terraces at babylon.

   hanging indentation. see under indentation.

   hanging rail arch., that rail of a door or casement to
      which hinges are attached.

   hanging side mining, the overhanging side of an inclined
      or hading vein.

   hanging sleeves.
      a strips of the same stuff as the gown, hanging down the
          back from the shoulders.
      b loose, flowing sleeves.

   hanging stile. arch.
      a that stile of a door to which hinges are secured.
      b that upright of a window frame to which casements are
          hinged, or in which the pulleys for sash windows are
          fastened.

   hanging wall mining, the upper wall of inclined vein, or
      that which hangs over the miner's head when working in the
      vein.
      1913 webster
see also:
hanging compass hanging garden hanging indentation indentation hanging rail hanging side 
hanging sleeves hanging stile hanging wall 
[2] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
indentation \in`denta"tion\, n.
   1. the act of indenting or state of being indented.
      1913 webster

   2. a notch or recess, in the margin or border of anything;
      as, the indentations of a leaf, of the coast, etc.
      1913 webster

   3. a recess or sharp depression in any surface.
      1913 webster

   4. print.
      a 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.
      b the measure of the distance; as, an indentation of one
          em, or of two ems.
          1913 webster

   hanging indentation, or reverse indentation, indentation
      of all the lines of a paragraph except the first, which is
      a full line; also called a hanging indent.
      1913 webster
see also:
hanging indentation reverse indentation hanging indent 

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