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Webster 1913 Edition


Tabular

Tab′u-lar

,
Adj.
[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: –
(a)
Having a flat surface;
as, a
tabular
rock
.
(b)
Formed into a succession of flakes; laminated.
Nodules . . . that are
tabular
and plated.
Woodward.
(c)
Set in squares.
[R.]
(d)
Arranged in a schedule;
as,
tabular
statistics
.
(e)
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.

Webster 1828 Edition


Tabular

TAB'ULAR

,
Adj.
[L. tabularis, from tabula, table.]
1.
In the form of a table; having a flat or square surface.
2.
Having the form of lamina or plates.
3.
Set down in tables; as a tabular list of substances.
4.
Set in squares.
Tabular crystal, one in which the prism is very short.
Tabular spar, in mineralogy, a species of limestone, generally of a grayish white color. It occurs either massive or crystallized, in rectangular four sides tables.
Tabular spar is the schaalstein of Werner, and the prismatic augite of Jameson.