Tablet

Tablet may refer to:

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Medicine
  • Tablet (pharmacy), a mixture of pharmacological substances pressed into a small cake or bar, colloquially called a "pill"

Computing
  • Tablet computer, a mobile computer that is primarily operated by touching the screen
  • Graphics tablet or digitizing tablet, a computer input device for capturing hand-drawn images and graphics
  • Tablet, a section of columns in a range of rows in Google's Bigtable NoSQL database

Confectionery
  • Tablet (confectionery), a medium-hard, sugary confection from Scotland
  • Tableting, a confectionery manufacturing process
  • A type of chocolate bar
  • Energy tablets

Inscription, printing, and writing media
  • Clay tablet, one of the earliest known writing mediums
  • Wax tablet, used by scribes as far back as ancient Greece
  • Notebook of blank or lined paper, usually bound with glue or staples along one edge
  • Stele, slab of stone or wood erected as a monument or marker
  • Tabula ansata, tablets with handles
  • Vindolanda tablets, Roman era writings found in Britain

Periodicals and printed works
  • Tablet (magazine), a daily online magazine of Jewish news, ideas, and culture
  • Tablet (newspaper), a newspaper published in Seattle, Washington
  • Tablet (religious), a traditional term used for certain religious texts
  • The Tablet, a Catholic magazine published in the United Kingdom
  • The Tablet (Brooklyn), a Catholic newspaper published in the United States
  • The New Zealand Tablet, a former weekly Catholic newspaper

Other uses
  • Tabula rasa, the theory originating with Aristotle of the newborn mind as an uninscribed tablet or blank slate
  • Tablet is a form of token (railway signalling)
  • Tyer's Electric Train Tablet, a system of controlling access to single-track railway lines in Britain
  • "Tablett", tray, a shallow platform designed for carrying things, in German

See also
  • Plaque (disambiguation)
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