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Tabular  adj.  Having the form of, or pertaining to, a table (in any of the uses of the word). Specifically:
(a)
Having a flat surface; as, a tabular rock.
(b)
Formed into a succession of flakes; laminated. "Nodules... that are tabular and plated."
(c)
Set in squares. (R.)
(d)
Arranged in a schedule; as, tabular statistics.
(e)
Derived from, or computed by, the use of tables; as, tabular right ascension.
Tabular difference (Math.), the difference between two consecutive numbers in a table, sometimes printed in its proper place in the table.
Tabular spar (Min.), wollastonite.






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"Tabular" Quotes from Famous Books



... the practised story-teller will find trite. But to others they may prove a fair foundation on which to build a personal method to be developed by experience. I have given them a tabular arrangement below. ...
— How to Tell Stories to Children - And Some Stories to Tell • Sara Cone Bryant

... of Ancient Germany and Scandinavia according to languages and dialects of those two areas. Exhibit, in a tabular form, the languages of the Gothic stock. Explain the meaning of the words Gothic, ...
— A Handbook of the English Language • Robert Gordon Latham

... changes there has been little shift in the pattern of the dermal bones that roof the adductor chambers. The most conspicuous modification in Captorhinus is the absence of the tabular. This element in Protorothyris was limited to the occiput and rested without sutural attachment upon the squamosal (Watson, 1954:338); later loss of the tabular could have had no effect upon the origins of muscles from inside the skull roof. Changes in pattern ...
— The Adductor Muscles of the Jaw In Some Primitive Reptiles • Richard C. Fox

... the visible horizon at different heights from the sea, as calculated from the known curvature of the earth, allowance is made for the refraction of the atmosphere, on a supposition of its being constant, but as it is known to vary, the tabular dip will often be erroneous, and, consequently, altitudes taken under different states of the atmosphere, will exhibit different instead ...
— Account of a Voyage of Discovery - to the West Coast of Corea, and the Great Loo-Choo Island • Captain Basil Hall

... a.m., and steered 150 degrees magnetic over granite hills producing wattles and good grass. At 9.40 crossed the south branch of the Bowes, after which the country was not so well grassed, except in the valleys. The lower hills were of granite; the higher red sandstone of tabular form. At 11.0 the country became more sandy and covered with short scrub, gradually rising to the south. At noon we attained the high tableland; crossed two scrubby valleys bounded by sandstone hills, in the first of which the ...
— Journals of Australian Explorations • A C and F T Gregory

... that we arrange our key, as far as discovered, in a tabular form, to avoid confusion. It will ...
— The Works of Edgar Allan Poe - Volume 1 (of 5) of the Raven Edition • Edgar Allan Poe

... track of desolation is now reached. The storm is at an end. The cloud has disappeared, and the story is nearly finished. The loss of property sustained by the persons living along the route of the storm-cloud is put in tabular form at the end of this work. It amounts to over ...
— A Full Description of the Great Tornado in Chester County, Pa. • Richard Darlington

... quality, shall be ascertained monthly or weekly by Government, and the total sum [in money] which would then purchase this bill of goods shall be, thereupon, officially promulgated. Persons may then, if they choose, make their contracts for future payments in terms of this multiple or tabular standard."(225) A, who had borrowed $1,000 of B in 1870 for ten years, would make note of the total money value of all these articles composing the multiple standard, which we will suppose is $125 in 1870. Consequently, A would promise ...
— Principles Of Political Economy • John Stuart Mill

... Sachwerth (thing-value, real-value) of Hermann, St. Untersuchungen, 101 ff. Thus Poulett Scrope recommended a "tabular standard," to be officially established and renewed from time to time, to serve as an anchor to those persons who wished permanently to fix their money in such a manner as to make it exchangeable for an equal value in things. (Principles of Political Economy, 1833, 406.) Something of this kind ...
— Principles Of Political Economy • William Roscher



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