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tabular

Having the form of, or pertaining to, a table (in any of the uses of the word). Specifically:

Having a flat surface; as, a tabular rock.

formed into a succession of flakes; laminated. Nodules . . . That are tabular and plated. (woodward)

set in squares.

Arranged in a schedule; as, tabular statistics.

Derived from, or computed by, the use of tables; as, tabular right ascension.

(Science: mathematics) Tabular difference, wollastonite.

Origin: L. Tabularis, fr. Tabula a board, table. See Table.