tablet

[ tab-lit ]
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noun
  1. a number of sheets of writing paper, business forms, etc., fastened together at the edge; pad: Advertisers keep sending us these tablets of memo paper with their logo.

  2. a thin, flat sheet of slate, wax-coated wood, or other rigid material formerly used for writing or marking on, especially one of a pair or set (tablets ) hinged or otherwise fastened together.

  1. a flat slab or surface, especially one bearing or intended to bear an inscription, carving, or the like.

  2. a small, flattish cake or piece of some solid or solidified substance, such as a drug, chemical, or freeze-dried food: She felt better after taking a decongestant tablet.A larger garment will require two dye tablets.

  3. Also called slate, tablet computer . a small, very thin, portable computer, usually battery-powered, having a touchscreen as the primary interface and input device, and often lacking a cover: I’ve entered the appointment in the calendar on my tablet. I never go anywhere without my tablet.: Compare laptop, smartphone.

verb (used with object),tab·let·ed or tab·let·ted, tab·let·ing or tab·let·ting.
  1. to form into pills, small cakes, pellets, etc.: The tableted vitamins should be swallowed without chewing.

  2. to mark or inscribe (memoranda, notes, etc.) on a tablet: Too often, our innovative ideas are politely tableted by company executives and never thought of again.

  1. to furnish with a plaque or flat piece of material bearing an inscription, carving, or the like.

Origin of tablet

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First recorded in 1275–1325; Middle English tablette, from Middle French tablete; equivalent to table + -et

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British Dictionary definitions for tablet

tablet

/ (ˈtæblɪt) /


noun
  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

  1. Scot a sweet made of butter, sugar, and condensed milk, usually shaped in a flat oblong block

  2. a slab of stone, wood, etc, esp one formerly used for inscriptions

    • a thinner rigid sheet, as of bark, ivory, etc, used for similar purposes

    • (often plural) a set or pair of these fastened together, as in a book

  3. a pad of writing paper

  4. NZ a token giving right of way to the driver of a train on a single line section

  5. computing an input device that allows the user to draw or write freehand to screen by means of stylus or digital pen

Origin of tablet

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C14: from Old French tablete a little table, from Latin tabula a board

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