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tab⋅la⋅ture

  [tab-luh-cher, -choor]
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–noun
1. Music. any of various systems of music notation using letters, numbers, or other signs to indicate the strings, frets, keys, etc., to be played.
2. a tabular space, surface, or structure.
Origin:
1565–75; < MF, Latinization (influenced by L tabula board) of It intavolatura, deriv. of intavolare to put on a board, score
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tab·la·ture   (tāb'lə-chŏŏr', -chər)   
n.  

  1. An engraved tablet or surface.

  2. Music A system of notation using letters, symbols, or other visual cues instead of standard notation to indicate how a musical piece is to be played. For example, guitar or banjo tablature typically consists of a diagram of the strings with finger positions indicated by numerals corresponding to the appropriate frets.


[French, alteration (influenced by Latin tabula, table) of Italian intavolatura, from intavolare, to put on a board : Latin in-, in- + tavola, table, board (from Latin tabula).]
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tablature 
type of musical notation for lute or stringed instrument, 1574, from Fr. tablature (1553), from L. tabula "table" (see table); infl. by It. tavolatura, from tavolare "to board, plank, enclose with boards."
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tablature tab·la·ture (tāb'lə-ch&oobreve;r', -chər)
n.

  1. An engraved tablet or surface.

  2. The cranial bones considered as two laminae separated by the diploe.

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tablature

system of musical notation based on a player's finger position, as opposed to notes showing rhythm and pitch. Tablatures were used for lute and keyboard music during the Renaissance and Baroque eras

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