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One of the transverse plants found in the calicles of certain corals and hydroids. Tabula rasa ( Etym: [L.], a smoothed tablet; hence, figuratively, the mind in its earliest state, before receiving impressions from without; -- a term used by Hobbes, Locke, and others, in maintaining a theory opposed to the doctrine of…

Having a flat surface; as, a tabular rock.

The act of tabularizing, or the state of being tabularized; formation into tables; tabulation.

To tabulate.

An artificial group of stony corals including those which have transverse septa in the calicles. The genera Pocillopora and Favosites are examples.

ce to tables or synopses. A philosophy is not worth the having, unless its results may be tabulated, and put in figures. I. Taylor.

The act of forming into a table or tables; as, the tabulation of statistics.

Cup-shaped; saucer-shaped; acetabuliform.

Of or pertaining to constables; consisting of constables.

A constabulary. [Obs.] Bp. Burnet.

The act of stabling or housing beasts.

A work in which subjects are exhibited in a tabular from or arrangement; as, an historical atlas.

A lemon-yellow phosphate of uranium and calcium occurring in tabular crystals with basal cleavage, and in micalike scales. H., 2- 2.5. Sp. gr., 3.05-3.19.

arium, a mineral occurring in transparent, colorless, white to yellow crystals (generally tabular), also in granular form, and in compact massive forms resembling marble. It has a high specific gravity, and hence is often called heavy spar. It is a common mineral in metallic veins.

A tabular statement of the dates of feasts, offices, saints' days, etc., esp. of those which are liable to change yearly according to the varying date of Easter.

or the like, on which information is exhibited, esp. when the information is arranged in tabular form; as, an historical chart.

The constabulary. [Obs.]

A mass of tabular cells formed in any kind of bark, in greater or less abundance.

Any tabular statement of the assigned places of a heavenly body, as a planet or comet, on several successive days.

ethod of scientific analysis or investigation, in which the relations or laws involved in tabular numbers are represented to the eye by means of curves or other figures; as the daily changes of weather by means of curves, the abscissas of which represent the hours of the day, and the ordinates the corresponding degrees…