tabular

Having a flat (planar) horizontal surface at top.

Adjective

  1. Having a flat (planar) horizontal surface at top.
    • Near-synonym: tablelike
    • Mesas got their name from being tabular.

    Synonyms: tablelike

  2. Organized as a table or list.
    • In technical communication, don't use prose to present information that lends itself to a tabular presentation.

    Synonyms: tabulated tabularized

    Coordinate Terms: tabulable

  3. Calculated by means of a table.
    • tabular artillery direction
  4. Tending to split into thin flat pieces, as slate does.
    • The local bedrock is tabular.

Origin

From Late Latin tabulāris. By surface analysis, tabula + -ar, or, by surface analysis, table + -ar. Compare fabular.

Forms

more tabular most tabular

Related

tabletop tabula tabulate tabulation tabulator periodic table laminar shalelike slatelike

Derived

circumtabular hypertabular hypotabular intertabular intratabular nontabular penitabular pseudotabular subtabular supertabular tabularisation tabularise tabularization tabularize tabularly tabular spar

Noun

  1. tabular bone

Forms

tabulars