TABULAR ARRAY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does tabular array mean? 

• TABULAR ARRAY (noun)
  The noun TABULAR ARRAY has 1 sense:

1. a set of data arranged in rows and columns

  Familiarity information: TABULAR ARRAY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• TABULAR ARRAY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A set of data arranged in rows and columns

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Synonyms:

table; tabular array

Context example:

see table 1

Hypernyms ("tabular array" is a kind of...):

array (an orderly arrangement)

Meronyms (members of "tabular array"):

row (a linear array of numbers, letters, or symbols side by side)

column (a vertical array of numbers or other information)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "tabular array"):

correlation table (a two-way tabulation of the relations between correlates; row headings are the scores on one variable and column headings are the scores on the second variables and a cell shows how many times the score on that row was associated with the score in that column)

contents; table of contents (a list of divisions (chapters or articles) and the pages on which they start)

actuarial table; statistical table (a table of statistical data)

calendar (a tabular array of the days (usually for one year))

file allocation table (the part of a floppy disk or hard disk where information is stored about the location of each piece of information on the disk (and about the location of unusable areas of the disk))

periodic table ((chemistry) a tabular arrangement of the chemical elements according to atomic number as based on the periodic law)

 Context examples 

A list or register of events; a tabular array of the days.

(Calendar, NCI Thesaurus)