IT→tab(Definition oftab stopfrom theCambridge Business English Dictionary? Cambridge University Press)
Examplesoftab stop
tab stopTab stops are set manually, and pressing the tab key causes the carriage to go to the nexttabstop.FromWikipediaThis example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.When the tab key was depressed, the carriage advanced to the nexttabstop.FromWikipediaThis example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.To simplify this, a horizontal bar was placed in the mechanism with a moveable lever stop for every position across the page, called atabstop.FromWikipediaThis example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Each field value of a record is separated from the next by atabstopcharacter it is a form of the more general delimiter-separated values format.FromWikipediaThis example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Until version 3.0, the program would sort only on the first letters of a paragraph; now you can designate the column ortabstopat which it should start work.From theCambridge English CorpusThe kernel style utilizes tabs (with tab stops set at 8 characters) for indentation.FromWikipediaThis example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Slight modifications were made to this instrument in 1936; it was electrified and enlarged in 1960 when a new console with tab stops was provided.FromWikipediaThis example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.In text editors on a computer, the same concept is implemented simplistically with automatic, fixed tab stops.FromWikipediaThis example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Another programmer prefers tab stops of eight, and his toolset is configured this way.FromWikipediaThis example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.First, snippets can include one or more tab stops, which can be cycled through using the tab key.FromWikipediaThis example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors.#https://dictionary.cambridge.org//dictionary/english/tab-stop##
