tab stop

English

Noun

tab stop (plural tab stops)

  1. On a typewriter, one of the horizontal locations where the carriage movement is halted by mechanical gears.
  2. (computing, by extension) A horizontal column in a text document where the cursor stops when the Tab key is pressed. It is used for alignment.
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