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Word of the Day Tuesday, June 9, 2026

indentation

/ɪnˌdɛnˈteɪʃən/ noun · British & US
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What does indentation mean?

noun

The act of making something more attractive or easier to understand by adding spaces or tabs at the beginning of a line of text, typically to show the structure of a program or to make a piece of writing more readable. In programming, it refers to the use of whitespace to indicate the grouping of statements or the nesting of control structures.

Example

"The programmer used indentation to make the code easier to read and understand."

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