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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



... now time that we arrange our key, as far as discovered, in a tabular form, to avoid confusion. It will ...
— Stories by Modern American Authors • Julian Hawthorne

... Delfosse knew that the Belgian sovereign, whose favor was his own fortune, would earnestly desire a triumph for the British cause. Both sides made strong representations, and presented statistics and tabular statements and elaborate comparisons, which he did not analyze, and perhaps did not understand. England, he knew, had been mulcted in fifteen and a half millions in the Geneva award, and the San Juan controversy ...
— Twenty Years of Congress, Volume 2 (of 2) • James Gillespie Blaine

... in my favour, for this tabular statement came to me like a blessing from on high. Resolving, therefore, to follow the instructions which I pretended to receive indifferently. I went to the military school, and as soon as I arrived the conference began. M. d'Alembert had been ...
— The Memoires of Casanova, Complete • Jacques Casanova de Seingalt

... tabular statement gives the particulars of the ocean mail service of Great Britain, now carried on almost exclusively by steamships. The numbers in the margin, running from 1 to 15, will point out the different lines in the recapitulation ...
— Ocean Steam Navigation and the Ocean Post • Thomas Rainey

... information concerning the destruction during the late war by rebel vessels of certain merchant vessels of the United States, and concerning the damages and claims resulting therefrom, I transmit a report from the Secretary of State and the tabular statement which accompanied it. ...
— A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents: Ulysses S. Grant • James D. Richardson

... data available in machine-readable format? All I can find is HTML, but I'm looking for simple tabular data. ...
— The 2003 CIA World Factbook • United States. Central Intelligence Agency

... In the instances of plays, &c., I have confined myself to the sums paid for the copyright; any remuneration accruing to the author from the performance, a share of the profit, benefit, &c. &c. being too diffuse to bring into a tabular form; and, in the case of works published while that servile system was in vogue, I have not attempted to record the amounts paid for dedications by the inflated "patrons," nor even those raised by subscription, except in one or two cases, where such ...
— Notes and Queries, Number 235, April 29, 1854 • Various

... in a convenient tabular form, figures showing the present and past numbers of the different Shaker Societies—males, females, and children—the amount of land each society owns, and the number of ...
— The Communistic Societies of the United States • Charles Nordhoff

... contrary, the classification of a naturalist differs from that of an astronomer, in that the objects which he has to classify present structural resemblances and structural differences in numberless degrees; and it is the object of his classification to present a tabular statement of these facts. Now, long before the theory of evolution was entertained, naturalists became fully aware that these facts of structural resemblances running through groups subordinate to ...
— Darwin, and After Darwin (Vol. 1 and 3, of 3) • George John Romanes

... REVOLUTION.—It is not positively known how many men from the colonies served in the war. The official tabular statement indicates a total off recorded years of enlistment and not a total of the the men who served. Hence, a man who served from April 19, 1775, until the formal cessation of hostilities, April 19, 1783 counted as eight men in the aggregate. In this basis of enlisted ...
— Burroughs' Encyclopaedia of Astounding Facts and Useful Information, 1889 • Barkham Burroughs

... projects has been a tabular view of the literary biography of the British Islands. In the midst of my reflections on the plans of Blair, Priestly, Playfair, Oberlin, Tytler, Jarry de Mancy, &c. I received a specimen of a Bibliographie biographique, by Edouard-Marie Oettinger, ...
— Notes & Queries 1849.11.17 • Various

... mountainous parts of central India, but is chiefly found in Myn Pat, or Mine Paut, (Pat or Paut, in Hindostanee, signifies table-land,) a high, insulated mountain, with a tabular summit, in the province of ...
— Delineations of the Ox Tribe • George Vasey

... 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 black shale peculiar to the ...
— Journals of Australian Explorations • A C and F T Gregory

... season can be most clearly and succinctly set forth in tabular form, it being premised that apparent discrepancies between the number of meetings and the number of performances are to be explained by the fact that frequently two, and sometimes three, works were brought forward on one evening or afternoon. These double ...
— Chapters of Opera • Henry Edward Krehbiel

... Outline in tabular form the story of Sir Launfal's search for the Holy Grail; be careful to include in your outline the time, the place, the leading characters, and the ...
— The Vision of Sir Launfal - And Other Poems • James Russell Lowell

... taking the word soul as a short expression of the moral and responsible part of being, each of these three parts has a passive and active power. The body has senses and muscles; the soul, feeling and resolution; the intellect, understanding and imagination. The scheme may be put into tabular ...
— The Stones of Venice, Volume I (of 3) • John Ruskin



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