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Indentation :: Indentation (n.) 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..

Indenting :: Indenting (n.) Indentation; an impression like that made by a tooth.

Center :: Center (n.) A conical recess, or indentation, in the end of a shaft or other work, to receive the point of a center, on which the work can turn, as in a lathe..

Set :: Set (n.) A kind of punch used for bending, indenting, or giving shape to, metal; as, a saw set..

Phonograph :: Phonograph (n.) An instrument for the mechanical registration and reproduction of audible sounds, as articulate speech, etc. It consists of a rotating cylinder or disk covered with some material easily indented, as tinfoil, wax, paraffin, etc., above which is a thin plate carrying a stylus. As the plate vibrates under the influence of a sound, the stylus makes minute indentations or undulations in the soft material, and these, when the cylinder or disk is again turned, set the plate in vibration

Mill :: Mill (n.) To make a raised border around the edges of, or to cut fine grooves or indentations across the edges of, as of a coin, or a screw head; also, to stamp in a coining press; to coin..

Engrailment :: Engrailment (n.) Indentation in curved lines, as of a line of division or the edge of an ordinary..

Indent :: Indent (v. t.) To begin (a line or lines) at a greater or less distance from the margin; as, to indent the first line of a paragraph one em; to indent the second paragraph two ems more than the first. See Indentation, and Indention..

Indention :: Indention (n.) Same as Indentation, 4..

Bay :: Bay (n.) A recess or indentation shaped like a bay.

Dint :: Dint (n.) The mark left by a blow; an indentation or impression made by violence; a dent.

Centre :: Centre (v. t.) To form a recess or indentation for the reception of a center.

Engrail :: Engrail (v. i.) To form an edging or border; to run in curved or indented lines.

Cremaillere :: Cremaillere (n.) An indented or zigzaged line of intrenchment.

Heteromerous :: Heteromerous (a.) Unrelated in chemical composition, though similar or indentical in certain other respects; as, borax and augite are homoemorphous, but heteromerous..

Peen :: Peen (n.) A round-edged, or hemispherical, end to the head of a hammer or sledge, used to stretch or bend metal by indentation..

Indentation :: Indentation (n.) The act of indenting or state of being indented.

Indent :: Indent (v. t.) To dent; to stamp or to press in; to impress; as, indent a smooth surface with a hammer; to indent wax with a stamp..

Indent :: Indent (n.) A stamp; an impression.

Indent :: Indent (v. i.) To contract; to bargain or covenant.

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