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Webster 1913 Edition
Tabular
Tab′u-lar
,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. Woodward.
(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 ascensionTabular difference
(Math.)
, the difference between two consecutive numbers in a table, sometimes printed in its proper place in the table.
– Tabular spar
(Min.)
, wollastonite.
Webster 1828 Edition
Tabular
TAB'ULAR
,Adj.
1.
In the form of a table; having a flat or square surface.2.
Having the form of lamina or plates.3.
Set down in tables; as a tabular list of substances.4.
Set in squares.Tabular crystal, one in which the prism is very short.
Tabular spar, in mineralogy, a species of limestone, generally of a grayish white color. It occurs either massive or crystallized, in rectangular four sides tables.
Tabular spar is the schaalstein of Werner, and the prismatic augite of Jameson.