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.
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