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tabulator

tabulator noun: a person who counts or tabulates things.

Noun

tabulator (plural tabulators)

  1. A person who counts or tabulates things.
  2. The mechanism on a typewriter that sets the position of columns and borders.
  3. A tab character.
    • You can put a tabulator in all those places where a space is allowed. A tabulator character corresponds to, for example, 4 spaces in the program editor.2004, Kari Laitinen, A Natural Introduction to Computer Programming with C#, page 110
  4. (historical) An early data processing machine that produces printed lists and totals from data on punched cards.

tabulator meaning in Tamil

tabulator in Tamil

அட்டவணையாளர், அட்டவணைப்படித்துபவர், தத்தல் பொத்தான்

Forms of tabulator

pluraltabulators

Origin of tabulator

From tabulate + -or.

Questions about tabulator

What does tabulator mean?
Tabulator means a person who counts or tabulates things.
What is tabulator in Tamil?
Tabulator in Tamil is அட்டவணையாளர், அட்டவணைப்படித்துபவர், தத்தல் பொத்தான். See Tabulator meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is tabulator?
Tabulator is a noun.
What is the plural of tabulator?
The plural of tabulator is tabulators.

Words near tabulator in the dictionary

  1. tabulating machine
  2. tabulating machines
  3. tabulation
  4. tabulations
  5. tabulatophobia
  6. tabulator
  7. tabulators
  8. tabulatory
  9. tabulature
  10. tabulatures
  11. tabuli

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Adapted from Wiktionary: tabulator (page history and authors); tabulator (Tamil 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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