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noun

a number of sheets of writing paper, business forms, etc., fastened together at the edge; pad.

a flat slab or surface, especially one bearing or intended to bear an inscription, carving, or the like.

a thin, flat leaf or sheet of slate, wax-coated wood, or other rigid material, used for writing or marking on, especially one of a pair or set hinged or otherwise fastened together.

tablets, the set as a whole.

a small, flat, or flattish cake or piece of some solid or solidified substance, as a drug, chemical, or soap.

Also called tablet computer, tablet PC. a small, thin, portable computer having an LCD screen onto which data can be input with a stylus or the fingertips: how to take notes in class with a tablet.

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verb (used with object), tab·let·ed or tab·let·ted, tab·let·ing or tab·let·ting.

to furnish or mark with a tablet or plaque.

to mark or inscribe (memoranda, notes, etc.) on a tablet.

to form into tablets, cakes, pellets, etc.

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Origin:
1275–1325; Middle English tablette < Middle French tablete. See table, -et

Synonyms
2. plaque.

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World English Dictionary

tablet (ˈtæblɪt)

—n
1.	a medicinal formulation made of a compressed powdered substance containing an active drug and excipients
2.	a flattish cake of some substance, such as soap
3.	(Scot) a sweet made of butter, sugar, and condensed milk, usually shaped in a flat oblong block
4.	a slab of stone, wood, etc, esp one formerly used for inscriptions
5.	a. a thinner rigid sheet, as of bark, ivory, etc, used for similar purposes
	b. (often plural) a set or pair of these fastened together, as in a book
6.	a pad of writing paper
7.	(NZ) a token giving right of way to the driver of a train on a single line section
8.	computing an input device that allows the user to draw or write freehand to screen by means of stylus or digital pen

[C14: from Old French tablete a little table, from Latin tabula a board]

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Word Origin & History

tablet

early 14c., "slab or flat surface for an inscription" (especially the two Mosaic tables of stone), from O.Fr. tablete (13c.), dim. of table "slab" (see table). The meaning "lozenge, pill" is first recorded 1580s; that of "pad of writing paper" in 1880.

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American Heritage

Medical Dictionary

tablet tab·let (tāb'lĭt)
n.
A small flat pellet of medication to be taken orally.

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FOLDOC

Computing Dictionary

TABLET definition

A query language.
["Human Factor Comparison of a Procedural and a Non-procedural Query Language", C. Welty et al, ACM Trans Database Sys 6(4):626-649 (Dec 1981)].
(1994-11-23)

Easton

Bible Dictionary

Tablet definition

probably a string of beads worn round the neck (Ex. 35:22; Num. 31:50). In Isa. 3:20 the Hebrew word means a perfume-box, as it is rendered in the Revised Version.

Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary
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Example sentences

Inc will launch a web site designed exclusively for tablet computer users early next week.

Now a detachable netbook allows users to remove the screen from the keyboard and use it as a touch-screen tablet computer.

Some of today's tablet computers and smartphones are more powerful than

personal computers were a decade ago.

When using a tablet, you can swipe from the left bezel to switch to another app

or run two apps side-by-side.

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"The child receives data through the sense organs; the child also has some inborn processing capacities—otherwise it would not be able to learn—but in addition, some "information" or "programs" are built-in at birth (for example, the child does not have to learn how to suck, for this is an innate reflex); there is a working memory, in which the child keeps those items of knowledge that are being used at a particular moment; and there is a permanent memory, which is, in Locke's terms, largely a "blank tablet" at birth, but which has a storage capacity that makes a hard disk pale into insignificance. The child gradually builds up a symbolic representation of the world around it, so there must be some inner "language" or medium of representation; even a newborn baby is starting to see and taste and smell and hear and touch, and to remember the more striking of its experiences, so the internal medium by which it represents and stores these impressions cannot be the native language (of which it is still ignorant. Jerry Fodor [in The Language of Thought] has discussed this inbuilt "language of thought," which is similar conceptually to the "machine language" that is built into the personal computer and about which most users remain completely ignorant)."

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