tabular
Americanadjective
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arranged in systematic or table form
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calculated from or by means of a table
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like a table in form; flat
Other Word Forms
Etymology
Origin of tabular
First recorded in 1650–60, tabular is from the Latin word tabulāris pertaining to a board or tablet. See table, -ar 1
Explanation
Anything tabular is arranged in a table, with rows and columns. Sports statistics are usually presented in a tabular format. A table is a chart that organizes information in rows and columns. Information presented in a table format is tabular. However, if tabular makes you think of a piece of furniture, you aren’t wrong. Tabular can also describe something that is flat like a table.
Vocabulary lists containing tabular
Example Sentences
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I run those through AI to convert into clean tabular data needed to do our taxes.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 8, 2026
The circular shape at its heart in this case comes from a ring of benzene, and it is termed planar because it comes in thin, tabular lamination shapes.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 14, 2024
Shackleton aimed his lifeboat for South Georgia, and it's at this island that you will frequently see the big tabular bergs sitting offshore.
From BBC ● Nov. 23, 2023
These tabular behemoths get drawn up from the White Continent on strong currents, only for their keels to then catch in the shallows of the continental shelf that surrounds the remote island.
From BBC ● Nov. 3, 2020
After scouting around, the men landed the boats on a remnant of a tabular iceberg—a large, flat, blue ice cube that rose about twenty feet from the surface of the water.
From "Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World" by Jennifer Armstrong
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