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Tabular


TAB'ULAR, adjective [Latin tabularis, from tabula, table.]

1. In the form of a table; having a flat or square surface.

2. Having the form of lamina or plates.

3. Set down in tables; as a tabular list of substances.

4. Set in squares.

Tabular crystal, one in which the prism is very short.

Tabular spar, in mineralogy, a species of limestone, generally of a grayish white color. It occurs either massive or crystallized, in rectangular four sides tables.

Tabular spar is the schaalstein of Werner, and the prismatic augite of Jameson.