tabular
nounEtymology From Late Latin tabulāris. By surface analysis, tabula + -ar, or, by surface analysis, table + -ar. Compare fabular.
1
tabular bone
tabular
adj/ˈtæbjʊləʴ/
Etymology From Late Latin tabulāris. By surface analysis, tabula + -ar, or, by surface analysis, table + -ar. Compare fabular.
1
Of an object or landform Having a flat (planar) horizontal surface at top.
- Near-synonym: tablelike
- Mesas got their name from being tabular.
2
Of a document or information Organized as a table or list.
- In technical communication, don't use prose to present information that lends itself to a tabular presentation.
3
Calculated by means of a table.
- tabular artillery direction
- The local bedrock is tabular.
- Derived terms
- circumtabular, hypertabular, hypotabular, intertabular, intratabular, nontabular, penitabular, peritabular, pseudotabular, subtabular, supertabular, tabularisation, tabularise, tabularization, tabularize, tabularly, tabular spar
- Related terms
- tabletop, tabula, tabulate, tabulation, tabulator, periodic table, laminar, shalelike, slatelike