tabular
Having a flat (planar) horizontal surface at top.
Adjective
- Having a flat (planar) horizontal surface at top.
- Near-synonym: tablelike
- Mesas got their name from being tabular.
Synonyms: tablelike
- 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
- Calculated by means of a table.
- tabular artillery direction
- 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
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
- tabular bone