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tabular

/ˈtæbjʊləʴ/

tabular adjective: having a flat (planar) horizontal surface at top.

Adjective

tabular (comparative more tabular, superlative most tabular)

  1. Having a flat (planar) horizontal surface at top.
    • Near-synonym: tablelike
    • Mesas got their name from being tabular.
    Synonyms:
    tablelike
  2. 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
  4. Tending to split into thin flat pieces, as slate does.
    • The local bedrock is tabular.

Noun

tabular (plural tabulars)

  1. tabular bone

tabular meaning in Tamil, Urdu and Malayalam

tabular in Tamil

சீரமைப்பு, சீரான தகடுப்பரப்புஉரு, பலகை அமைப்பு

tabular in Urdu

جدولی, مسطح

tabular in Malayalam

പട്ടികരൂപത്തിലുള്ള

Synonyms of tabular

Forms of tabular

Adjective
comparativemore tabular
superlativemost tabular
Noun
pluraltabulars

Origin of tabular

From Late Latin tabulāris. By surface analysis, tabula + -ar, or, by surface analysis, table + -ar. Compare fabular.

Words formed from tabular

Questions about tabular

What does tabular mean?
Tabular means having a flat (planar) horizontal surface at top.
What is tabular in Tamil?
Tabular in Tamil is சீரமைப்பு, சீரான தகடுப்பரப்புஉரு, பலகை அமைப்பு. See Tabular meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is tabular?
Tabular can be an adjective or a noun.
How do you pronounce tabular?
Tabular is pronounced /ˈtæbjʊləʴ/.

Words near tabular in the dictionary

  1. tabulable
  2. tabulae
  3. tabulae ansatae
  4. tabulae rasae
  5. Tabulam
  6. tabular
  7. tabular spar
  8. tabularia
  9. tabularin
  10. tabularisation
  11. tabularisations

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: tabular (page history and authors); tabular (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); tabular (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); tabular (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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