Usually means: Position where text alignment stops.
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  1. tab stop: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. tab stop: Wiktionary
  3. Tab stop: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia

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Definitions from Wiktionary (tab stop)

noun:  On a typewriter, any of the horizontal locations where the carriage movement is halted by mechanical gears.
noun:  (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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