tabbed

Having a tab (protruding strip of material).

Adjective

  1. Having a tab (protruding strip of material).
    • Letter up a tabbed folder for each different catalog you intend to issue. As you collect matter for this catalog, put it in the one place — the folder devoted to that catalog. - 1907, Joseph Meadon, Walter Lawrence...
  2. Having tabs (the user interface element).
    • A tabbed browser can display a different webpage on each tab.
    • If you're a stranger to tabbed browsing, you're probably trapped in a somewhat old-fashioned Web surfing pattern. Perhaps you click on an interesting link, wait for that link to load, then press the Back button when...

Origin

Etymology tree English tab English -ed English tabbed From tab + -ed.

Derived

multitabbed nontabbed untabbed

Verb

  1. simple past and past participle of tab