How to pronounce “tab stop”

Meaning

• [Noun]
• On a typewriter, any of the horizontal locations where the carriage movement is halted by mechanical gears.
• (computing, by extension) A horizontal column in a text document to which the cursor jumps when the Tab key is pressed, used for alignment.

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