English

Noun

tabulation ‎(countable and uncountable, plural tabulations)

1. The act or process of tabulating.
   • 1997: Chris Horrocks, Introducing Foucault, page 69 (Totem Books, Icon Books; ISBN 1840460865)

     I’m using mathesis — a universal science of measurement and order …
     And there is also taxinomia a principle of classification and ordered 'tabulation'.
     Knowledge replaced universal resemblance with finite differences. History was arrested and turned into tables …
     Western reason had entered the age of judgement.

2. A result of tabulating: a table, displaying data in compact form.

   Here is a tabulation of baseless claims made in the last month.

3. (computing) A printout.

Related terms

• tabulate
• entabulate, entabulation

Translations

French

tabulation

Noun

tabulation f ‎(plural tabulations)

1. tab (a space character that extends to the next column)
2. tabulation