tabling

A forming into (graphic) tables; a display in tabular form.

Noun

A forming into (graphic) tables; a display in tabular form.
Synonyms: tabulation
The letting of one timber into another by alternate scores or projections, as in shipbuilding; a crude form of dovetailing.
A broad hem on the edge of a sail.
- On the luffs and after leaches of jibs the tabling ought to be 3 inches, on the foot 1 inches - 1867, James Grange, Hints to young shipmasters in drafting and cutting ships' rigging and sails:
A setting-aside of a topic from discussion.
- The Woodstock Town Board dropped the controversial anti-discrimination ordinance after a meeting marked by a series of tablings and withdrawals of various resolutions. - 1978 April 22, “Woodstock, NY Rights Ordinance...
The introduction of a topic to a discussion.
Representing a company or organization (at an exposition, fair, etc.), usually at a booth or display.
board; support
- My daughter hath there already now of me ten poundes, which I account to be given for her tabling : after this ten poundes will follow another, for her apparel - 1614, Richard Bernard, Terence in English:
The uses of a table that contains the results of subproblems which can then be used later in the solving of a problem when the same subproblem arises again.