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Webster 1913 Edition


Tabulation

Tabˊu-la′tion

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

Definition 2024


tabulation

tabulation

English

Noun

tabulation (countable and uncountable, plural tabulations)

  1. The act or process of tabulating.
    • 1997: Chris Horrocks, Introducing Foucault, page 69 (Totem Books, Icon Books; ISBN 1840460865)
      I’m using mathesis — a universal science of measurement and order
      And there is also taxinomia a principle of classification and ordered 'tabulation'.
      Knowledge replaced universal resemblance with finite differences. History was arrested and turned into tables …
      Western reason had entered the age of judgement.
  2. A result of tabulating: a table, displaying data in compact form.
    Here is a tabulation of baseless claims made in the last month.
  3. (computing) A printout.

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French

tabulation

Noun

tabulation f (plural tabulations)

  1. tab (a space character that extends to the next column)
  2. tabulation