Tabrere
(Tab"rere) n. A taborer. [Obs.] Spenser.
Tabret
(Tab"ret) n. A taboret. Young.
Tabu
(Ta*bu") n. & v. See Taboo.
Tabula
(||Tab"u*la) n.; pl. Tabulæ [L.]
1. A table; a tablet.
2. (Zoöl.) One of the transverse plants found in the calicles of certain corals and hydroids.
Tabula rasa [L.], a smoothed tablet; hence, figuratively, the mind in its earliest state, before receiving
impressions from without; — a term used by Hobbes, Locke, and others, in maintaining a theory opposed
to the doctrine of innate ideas.
Tabular
(Tab"u*lar) a. [L. tabularis, fr. tabula a board, table. See Table.] Having the form of, or
pertaining to, a table Specifically: —
(a) Having a flat surface; as, a tabular rock.
(b) Formed into a succession of flakes; laminated.
Nodules . . . that are tabular and plated.
Woodward. (c) Set in squares. [R.]
(d) Arranged in a schedule; as, tabular statistics.
(e) Derived from, or computed by, the use of tables; as, tabular right ascension.
Tabular difference (Math.), the difference between two consecutive numbers in a table, sometimes
printed in its proper place in the table. — Tabular spar (Min.), wollastonite.
Tabularization
(Tab`u*lar*i*za"tion) n. The act of tabularizing, or the state of being tabularized; formation
into tables; tabulation.
Tabularize
(Tab"u*lar*ize) v. t. [imp. & p. p. Tabularized ; p. pr. & vb. n. Tabularizing ] To tabulate.
Tabulata
(||Tab`u*la"ta) n. pl. [NL., fr. L. tabulatus floored.] (Zoöl.) An artificial group of stony corals
including those which have transverse septa in the calicles. The genera Pocillopora and Favosites are
examples.
Tabulate
(Tab"u*late) v. t. [imp. & p. p. Tabulated ; p. pr. & vb. n. Tabulating.] [L. tabula a table.
See Tabular.]
1. To form into a table or tables; to reduce to tables or synopses.
A philosophy is not worth the having, unless its results may be tabulated, and put in figures.
I. Taylor. 2. To shape with a flat surface.
Tabulation
(Tab`u*la"tion) n. The act of forming into a table or tables; as, the tabulation of statistics.
Tac
(Tac) n. [Cf. Tack, n., 4.] (O. Eng. Law) A kind of customary payment by a tenant; — a word
used in old records. Cowell. Burrill.
