Crossword clues for tabular
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
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:
Having a flat surface; as, a tabular rock.
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Formed into a succession of flakes; laminated.
Nodules . . . that are tabular and plated.
--Woodward. Set in squares. [R.]
Arranged in a schedule; as, tabular statistics.
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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.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"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
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
WordNet
adj. arranged or displayed systematically in table form
flat; like a table in form
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).