Tăb'ū-lar, a.

a. [Lat. tabularis, from tabula, a board, table.] Having the form of, or pertaining to, a table, in any of the uses of the word; as, (a.) Having a flat surface; as, a tabular rock. (b.) Formed into a succession of flakes; laminated. “Nodules . . . that are tabular and plated.” Woodward. (c.) Set in squares. [Rare.] Johnson. (d.) Arranged in a scheme or schedule; as, tabular statistics. (e.) Derived from, or computed by, the use of tables; as, tabular right ascension.

Tabular crystal (Min.), one in which the prism is very short.—Tabular spar, a mineral consisting of silica and lime, occurring in rather brittle, laminated masses, the surface of the laminae having a fibrous and pearly appearance. It is usually white or bluish-white. Dana.