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Indentation vs Induration - What's the difference?

indentation | induration |

As nouns the difference between indentation and induration

is that indentation is the act of indenting or state of being indented while induration is hardness.

indentation

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • The act of indenting or state of being indented.
  • A notch or recess, in the margin or border of anything; as, the indentations of a leaf, of the coast, etc.
  • A recess or sharp depression in any surface.
  • The act of beginning a line or series of lines at a little distance within the flush line of the column or page, as in the common way of beginning the first line of a paragraph.
  • A measure of the distance from the flush line; as, an indentation of one em, or of two ems.

    • induration

    English

    Alternative forms

    * enduration

    Noun

    (-)
  • Hardness.
  • * 1980. Anthony Burgess, Earthly Powers :
    • The voice was harder than I had known, and not only in stony reaction to long floods of wholly just selfpity, also roughened with gin and smoke, perhaps also assimilated to New York induration , the hardness of culture as well as of pain.
  • Process of becoming hard.
  • (medical) Hardening of an area of the body as a reaction to inflammation, hyperemia, or neoplastic infiltration.
  • (medical) An area or part of the body that has undergone such a reaction. Most often this term is used to describe dermatologic findings.
  • * 2005.' Kimura, et al. "Comparison of erythema and '''induration as results of tuberculin tests.'' ''Int J Tuberc Lung Dis. 2005;9(8):853-7. PMID 16104630:
    • Both erythema and induration appear to be adequate indices of tuberculin sensitivity.
  • * 2005. Race, et al. "Painful nodule with induration and spreading erythema." Baylor University Medical Center Proceedings. 2005;18(4):401–404:
    • The erythema had spread to 20 cm, and the central induration had spread to 9 cm.

    References

    * Induration , Merriam-Webster online. * Induation'', In ''Random House Webster's Unabridged Dictionary. Random House, Inc. 2001. Page 975. ISBN 037572026.