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tab·let

   [tab-lit]
noun
1.
a number of sheets of writing paper, business forms, etc., fastened together at the edge; pad.
2.
a flat slab or surface, especially one bearing or intended to bear an inscription, carving, or the like.
3.
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.
4.
tablets, the set as a whole.
5.
a small, flat, or flattish cake or piece of some solid or solidified substance, as a drug, chemical, or soap.
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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.
7.
to furnish or mark with a tablet or plaque.
8.
to mark or inscribe (memoranda, notes, etc.) on a tablet.
9.
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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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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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)

The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing, © Denis Howe 2010 http://foldoc.org
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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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