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Define the word horizontal tabulation

"horizontal tabulation" foldoc "The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03)"

horizontal tabulation
     
         (tab, Control-I, HT, ASCII 9) A character which
        when displayed or printed causes the following character to be
        placed at the next "tabstop" - the column whose number is a
        multiple of the current tab width.  Commonly (especially in
        Unix(?)) the tab width is eight, so, counting from the left
        margin (column zero), the tab stops are at columns 8, 16, 24,
        up to the width of the screen or page.
     
        A tab width of four or two is often preferred when indenting
        program source code to conserve indentation.
     
        Represented as "\t" in C, Unix, and derivatives.
     
        (1999-07-05)