Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Having a plane surface; flat.
- adj. Geology Tending to split into thin flat pieces.
- adj. Organized as a table or list.
- adj. Calculated by means of a table.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Having the form of table, tablet, or tablature; hard, flat, and expansive; tabulate; laminar; lamellar.
- Of or pertaining to a table or tabulated form; of the nature of a list, schedule, or synopsis arranged in lines or columns. Also tabellary.
- Ascertained from or computed by the use of tables: as, tabular right ascension.
Wiktionary
- adj. having a flat, plane surface
- adj. organized as a table or list
- adj. calculated by means of a table
- adj. geology tending to split into thin flat pieces, such as slate
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Having the form of, or pertaining to, a table (in any of the uses of the word).
- adj. Having a flat surface.
- adj. Formed into a succession of flakes; laminated.
- adj. rare Set in squares.
- adj. Arranged in a schedule.
- adj. Derived from, or computed by, the use of tables.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. flat; like a table in form
- adj. of or pertaining to or arranged in table form
Etymologies
- Latin tabulāris, of boards, from tabula, board. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Syntax is \begin {tabular} [pos] {cols} tabular* is like tabular, but also takes a target width for the table.”
“You can also filter the points by amount given, by name or industry, or view and sort the data in tabular format.”
“My opinion of Felton's annual report is that he's taken a bunch of data, over-designed it, and made it harder to read than if it were simply in tabular form.”
“Han Jiabao presents this data in tabular form in Helan shidai, 60. back”
“Still there are, doubtless, some errors and omissions; but the following data arranged in tabular form will, it is hoped, at least serve as a basis from which a more perfect record shall be made at some time in the future.”
“The population of the United States, as they were according to the three last censuses, is given in tabular form.”
“Calcium metasilicate, CaSiO_3, occurs in nature as monoclinic crystals known as tabular spar or wollastonite; it may be prepared artificially from solutions of calcium chloride and sodium silicate.”
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary"
“This is a kind of tabular arrangement of certain days, with accompanying numbers, as shown in our Fig. 3, which is an exact copy of those portions of Plates 18 and 19 of the Codex Peresianus, to which I refer.”
“There are two areas left that still use tables: 1) the comment meta line with username, icon, etc. (we could do it with lists or DIVs, but CSS vertical alignment within block level elements stinks and it ends up looking lopsided and breaking as soon as the text size is increased), and 2) the Statistics drop-down menu in the left sidebar (because a table is appropriate for that kind of tabular data).”
“That's actually a group not represented in the cross-tabular data we typically use and was not in the data provided Alan, but one Alan apparently attempted to identify by performing his own calculations.”
The Huffington Post: Gallup's Frank Newport Responds To Criticism
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘tabular’.
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Minerals and Mineralogy
List of minerals, elements, group names and geochemistry terms encountered in the science of mineralogy. I've chosen to avoid capital letters in most examples, though a great many mineral names hon...
galkhaite, xanthoconite, pyrostilpnite, polybasite, pyrargyrite, djurleite, digenite, covellite, chalcocite, cerargirite, acanthite, aeschynite and 2608 more...
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Interesting words
A list of words that are odd or words that I have looked up.
concupiscence, brize, scree, scoria, forestaff, spanaemia, valetudinarianism, distasture, pyrethrum, laudanum, gentian, bicameral and 11184 more...
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slumry's Words
cattywampus, ingratiate, lackadaisical, exactitude, exfoliate, fulminate, circumnavigation, circuitous, debride, sidle, sequester, chicory and 1002 more...
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Necessary?
"Words are very..."
The above was the original description for this list. Unfortunately, it doesn't convey much about the list contents.
I'm leaving you to draw your own conclusions abo...supererogation, fruitcake, unbeknownst, melifluous, bane, cavy, unnecessary, lyrical, question, undertow, weapon, arduous and 200 more...
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vocab set 5
accessible, acute, appreciate, arid, biosphere, compose, compression, distill, document, expeditious, innovative, obstacle and 8 more...
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chrislondon's Words
allegory, analogy, overt, unilateral, hysteron-proteron, mnemonic, acronym, plinth, nadir, mollify, singular, manifold and 21 more...
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