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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (4)

1. a slab of stone or wood suitable for bearing an inscription;

2. a number of sheets of paper fastened together along one edge;
[syn: pad, pad of paper, tablet]

3. a small flat compressed cake of some substance;
- Example: "a tablet of soap"

4. a dose of medicine in the form of a small pellet;
[syn: pill, lozenge, tablet, tab]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Tablet \Ta"blet\, n. [F. tablette, dim. of table. See Table.] 1. A small table or flat surface. [1913 Webster] 2. A flat piece of any material on which to write, paint, draw, or engrave; also, such a piece containing an inscription or a picture. [1913 Webster] 3. Hence, a small picture; a miniature. [Obs.] [1913 Webster] 4. pl. A kind of pocket memorandum book. [1913 Webster] 5. A flattish cake or piece; as, tablets of arsenic were formerly worn as a preservative against the plague. [1913 Webster] 6. (Pharm.) A solid kind of electuary or confection, commonly made of dry ingredients with sugar, and usually formed into little flat squares; -- called also lozenge, and troche, especially when of a round or rounded form. [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

tablet n 1: a slab of stone or wood suitable for bearing an inscription 2: a number of sheets of paper fastened together along one edge [syn: pad, pad of paper, tablet] 3: a small flat compressed cake of some substance; "a tablet of soap" 4: a dose of medicine in the form of a small pellet [syn: pill, lozenge, tablet, tab]
The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (19 January 2023):

TABLET A query language. ["Human Factor Comparison of a Procedural and a Non-procedural Query Language", C. Welty et al, ACM Trans Database Sys 6(4):626-649 (Dec 1981)]. (1994-11-23)