tabification

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noun

The process of tabifying.

Opposite
untabification
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Meanings

nountabification (uncountable)
  1. uncountablecomputingThe process of tabifying.

    I'd like to call your attention to four of them: check for accessibility, markup preservation, simplified tabification and indentation, and target schema validation.

    2006, Dino Esposito, Programming Microsoft ASP.NET 2.0 core reference
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    You can see that tabification can greatly reduce the length of such strings, hence the length of text files. For that reason, Blaise Computing Inc. source code files are tabified.

    1989, James T. Smith, Advanced Turbo C

Synonyms & antonyms

Opposite
untabification

Origin

From tab + -ification.

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Cite this entry
APA

tabification. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/tabification

MLA

“tabification.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/tabification. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “tabification,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/tabification.

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