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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
tabular
adjective
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■ NOUN
data
▪ A direct reading from graphical or tabular data is usually carried out successfully by a high proportion of low attainers.
▪ In another written test on tabular data one set of questions was about a calendar which was provided.
▪ From the test items used in this project, the approximate difficulties of tasks involving tabular data have been graded.
▪ Table 5.2 represents the characteristics and demands of tabular data tasks of increasing complexity.
form
▪ It is useful to present these in tabular form simply adding on an extra column each year.
▪ In most cases this is set out in tabular form.
▪ Some of the most important features of the remedies are highlighted and the information is presented in an easy-to-use tabular form.
▪ The results from the mechanical time log are presented in graph, chart and tabular form.
▪ It has sophisticated reporting features, which involve taking information from the database and arranging it in tabular form.
ledger
▪ Prepare new tabular ledger. 12.
▪ To balance the tabular ledger the columns should be added across and down and the total debits should equal the total credits.
▪ Charged bills are sent to the reception office for entry in the tabular ledger.
▪ The tabular ledger is then balanced and closed, and a daily summary sheet completed. 5.
▪ A midday balance should be struck on the tabular ledger. 13.
▪ Several different types of tabular ledger are in use, but always the basic principle is the same.
▪ Enter the particulars of the guests listed below who are in residence at the Atlas Hotel on an analysed visitors tabular ledger.
▪ A final check balance on the tabular ledger should be made.
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▪ A direct reading from graphical or tabular data is usually carried out successfully by a high proportion of low attainers.
▪ Contact info is listed in tabular form; one click displays an individual entry, with another click to edit that info.
▪ In most cases this is set out in tabular form.
▪ It is useful to present these in tabular form simply adding on an extra column each year.
▪ Magma can wedge open and penetrate cracks cutting across the layering of the surrounding rock, forming tabular intrusions called dikes.
▪ Prepare new tabular ledger. 12.
▪ Some of the most important features of the remedies are highlighted and the information is presented in an easy-to-use tabular form.
▪ The layout is tabular in format but the abbreviations are complex and time-consuming to understand.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Tabular

Tabular \Tab"u*lar\, a. [L. tabularis, fr. tabula a board, table. See Table.] Having the form of, or pertaining to, a table (in any of the uses of the word). Specifically:

  1. Having a flat surface; as, a tabular rock.

  2. Formed into a succession of flakes; laminated.

    Nodules . . . that are tabular and plated.
    --Woodward.

  3. Set in squares. [R.]

  4. Arranged in a schedule; as, tabular statistics.

  5. 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.

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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
tabular

"table-shaped," 1650s, from French tabulaire or directly from Latin tabularis "of a slab or tablet, of boards or planks," from tabula "slab" (see table (n.)). Meaning "arranged in a list or columns; ascertained or computed by means of tables" is from 1710.

Wiktionary
tabular

a. 1 having a flat, plane surface 2 organized as a table or list 3 calculated by means of a table 4 (context geology English) tending to split into thin flat pieces, such as slate

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WordNet
tabular

  1. adj. arranged or displayed systematically in table form

  2. flat; like a table in form

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Usage examples of "tabular".

The best-known locality is Fronolen near Tremadoc in North Wales, where crystals of the thin tabular habit occur with crystallized quartz, albite and anatase on the walls of crevices in diabase.

The best-known locality is Fronolen near Tremadoc in North Wales, where crystals of the thin tabular habit occur with crystallized quartz, albite and anatase on the walls of crevices in diabase.

Fortune seemed to be in my favour, for this tabular statement came to me like a blessing from on high.

He knew that Savage was an extremely fine surgeon, rather a wizard, for the man had devised some procedures in brain surgery that were exceptional, and his measurements of cerebrifugal voltages were outstanding contributions to tabular analysis.

In the Missionary College at Lahainaluna, on Mowee, one of the Sandwich Islands, I saw a tabular exhibition of a Hawiian verb, conjugated through all its moods and tenses.

Bounderby, the two gentlemen at this present moment walking through Coketown, and both eminently practical, who could, on occasion, furnish more tabular statements derived from their own personal experience, and illustrated by cases they had known and seen, from which it clearly appeared - in short, it was the only clear thing in the case - that these same people were a bad lot altogether, gentlemen.

Smaller circles and other shapes appeared to the sides, while below was what looked like the top part of a tabular array of strange symbols.

The town looked like a tabular iceberg with its surface entirely claimed by earth.

For convenience the Triumphs are presented below, followed by a tabular representation of the suits, with their meanings or sets of meanings (for upright and reversed fall of the cards).