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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

TAB'ULAR, a. [L. tabularis, from tabula, table.]
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.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: of or pertaining to or arranged in table form
2: flat; like a table in form

Merriam Webster's

adjective Etymology: Latin tabularis of boards, from tabula board, tablet Date: circa 1656 1. having a flat surface ; laminar <a tabular crystal> 2. a. of, relating to, or arranged in a table; specifically set up in rows and columns b. computed by means of a table

Oxford Reference Dictionary

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. Derivatives: tabularly adv. Etymology: L tabularis (as TABLE)

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Tabular Tab"u*lar, 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). 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 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.

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

a. 1. Of a table. 2. Flat, plane. 3. Laminated, lamellar, lamelliform, foliated, scaly, flaky.

Moby Thesaurus

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