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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Tabula \Tab"u*la\, n.; pl. Tabul[ae]. [L.]
A table; a tablet.
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(Zo["o]l.) 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.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
n. 1 A table or tablet. 2 (context zoology English) One of the transverse plants found in the calicles of certain corals and hydroids.
WordNet
Wikipedia
Tabula ( Byzantine Greek: τάβλη), meaning a plank or board, was a Greco-Roman board game, and is generally thought to be the direct ancestor of modern backgammon.
Tabula was a fabless semiconductor company based in Santa Clara, California. Founded in 2003 by Steve Teig (ex- CTO of Cadence), it raised $215 million in venture funding. The company designed and built three dimensional field programmable gate arrays (3-D FPGAs) and ranked third on the Wall Street Journal's annual "Next Big Thing" list in 2012.
Tabula may refer to:
- Tabula (company), semiconductor company
- Tabula (game), game thought to be the predecessor to backgammon
- Tabula (magazine), Georgian, bilingual, full-color magazine of news and opinion, published weekly in Tbilisi
Tabula is a monthly magazine published in Tbilisi, Georgia.
Usage examples of "tabula".
When the colony ship lifted off for Tabula Rasa, colorblindness was first on its charter for the new society.
Yes, I am once more a young man, sound in wind and limb, with not a tooth or an illusion lost, my mind tabula rasa, my heart to be had for the asking.
They thought he would be easily controlled and, because he was a tabula rasa, would not provoke objections from any of the more established groups.
Skinner argued that the child, or animal, was at birth virtually a tabula rasa, physiologically competent, but behaviorally an empty slate on which experience would cut the grooves that would determine all subsequent patterns of function.
He had enough money to pay for his upkeep for far longer than his body and mind were likely to hold out, and his doctors had advised him that a third core-system rejuvenation was out of the question unless he wanted to start over with a tabula rasa personality.
Caught between the angel and the staff, Kamahl became a tabula rasa, a soul upon which nothing has been written.
And this the French socialists, misled by a priori notions, attempted to do, on the theory of the Contrat-Social, as if they had a tabula rasa, without regarding the existing constituents of society, or traditions, or historical growths.
My thoughts sometimes take a melancholy turn as I sit here in the dusty old house, in my writing room, looking out over the unweeded garden, with the white light coming out of a white sky, all of it a tabula rasa resembling my mind.
Its tableau consists of a modern tabula recta: 26 standard horizontal alphabets, each slid one space to the left of the one above.
The general title of such a compendium being Tabulas Mortem, Lists of the Dead.
Gratama has ventured to advance two propositions entirely devoid of proof: "Decem priores tabulas ab ipsis Romanis non esse profectas, tota confirma Decemviratus Historia," et "Hermodorum legum decemviralium ceri nominis auctorem esse, qui eas composuerit suis ordinibus, disposuerit, suaque fecerit auctoritate, ut a decemviris reciperentur.
Virginal paperbacks, their margins a tabula rasa for narcissistic scribbles, were cheap enough to inspire minimal guilt when I wrote in them and bland enough to accept my defacements without complaint.
It had never had much of a taste for the mystical, and with all but the weakest of its evocators and feit workers murdered by the Tabula Rasa, there was nobody to begin the labor of freeing minds locked up in dogmas and utilities.
She was a tabula rasa waiting for someone to draw animated cartoons on.
There was no passion among them now, nor more than a vague comprehension of Roxborough's purpose in forming what he'd called the Society of the Tabula Rasa, or the Clean Slate.