tabular

• POS: Adjective
• HYPHEN: tab=u=lar

CIDE DICTIONARY

tabular, a. [L. tabularis, fr. tabula a board, table. See Table.].

 Having the form of, or pertaining to, a table (in any of the uses of the word).  [1913 Webster]
"Nodules . . . that are tabular and plated."  [1913 Webster]

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.

OXFORD DICTIONARY

tabular, adj.
1 of or arranged in tables or lists.
2 broad and flat like a table.
3 (of a crystal) having two broad flat faces.
4 formed in thin plates.

Derivative

tabularly adv.

Etymology

L tabularis (as TABLE)

THESAURUS

tabular

assorted, cataloged, classified, even, filed, flat, flattened, flush, graded, grouped, hierarchic, homaloidal, horizontal, indexed, level, on file, pigeonholed, placed, plain, plane, pyramidal, ranked, rated, rolled, smooth, smoothed out, smoothened, sorted, squashed, squashed flat, stratified, tabloid, trodden, trodden flat

ROGET THESAURUS

tabular

Layer

N layer, stratum, strata, course, bed, zone, substratum, substrata, floor, flag, stage, story, tier, slab, escarpment, table, tablet, dess, flagstone, board, plank, trencher, platter, plate, lamina, lamella, sheet, foil, wafer, scale, flake, peel, coat, pellicle, membrane, film, leaf, slice, shive, cut, rasher, shaving, integument, eschar, stratification, scaliness, nest of boxes, coats of an onion, monolayer, bilayer, trilayer, lamellar, lamellated, lamelliform, layered, laminated, laminiferous, micaceous, schistose, schistous, scaly, filmy, membranous, pellicular, flaky, squamous, foliated, foliaceous, stratified, stratiform, tabular, discoid, spathic, spathose, trilamellar, graphitic.