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tab stops

tab stops is the plural of tab stop.

Meaning of tab stop

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.

Questions about tab stops

What is tab stops the plural of?
Tab stops is the plural of tab stop.

Words near tab stops in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: tab stops (page history and authors); tab stop (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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