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tabstop

tabstop is the alternative form 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.

Forms of tabstop

pluraltabstops

Questions about tabstop

What is tabstop the alternative form of?
Tabstop is the alternative form of tab stop.

Words near tabstop in the dictionary

  1. Tabrizis
  2. Tabron
  3. Tabrons
  4. tabs
  5. tabs out
  6. tabstop
  7. tabstops
  8. tabsule
  9. tabsules
  10. Tabtabungao
  11. tabtop

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Adapted from Wiktionary: tabstop (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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