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tab stop

tab stop noun: on a typewriter, any of the horizontal locations where the carriage movement is halted by mechanical gears.

Noun

tab stop (plural tab stops)

  1. On a typewriter, any of the horizontal locations where the carriage movement is halted by mechanical gears.
  2. (broadly) A horizontal column in a text document to which the cursor jumps when the Tab key is pressed, used for alignment.

tab stop meaning in Tamil

tab stop in Tamil

தத்தல் நிறுத்தம்

Forms of tab stop

pluraltab stops
alternative formtabstop

Questions about tab stop

What does tab stop mean?
Tab stop means on a typewriter, any of the horizontal locations where the carriage movement is halted by mechanical gears.
What is tab stop in Tamil?
Tab stop in Tamil is தத்தல் நிறுத்தம். See Tab stop meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is tab stop?
Tab stop is a noun.
What is the plural of tab stop?
The plural of tab stop is tab stops.

Words near tab stop in the dictionary

  1. tab order
  2. tab orders
  3. tab out
  4. tab page
  5. tab pages
  6. tab stop
  7. tab stops
  8. taba
  9. Taba-ao
  10. Tabaan Norte
  11. tabability

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Adapted from Wiktionary: tab stop (page history and authors); tab stop (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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