1. In word processing systems,a feature that enables blocks of recorded text to be indented with different margins,while still retaining the original (fixed) margin settings.
late Middle English (as a verb in the sense 'give a zigzag outline to, divide by a zigzag line'): from Anglo-Norman French endenter or medieval Latin indentare, from en-, in- 'into' + Latin dens, dent- 'tooth'late Middle English: from in- + the verb dent
