Tablet (disambiguation)
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A tablet is a pharmaceutical dosage form. It comprises a mixture of active substances and excipients, usually in powder form, pressed or compacted from a powder into a solid dose...

is a mixture of pharmacological substances pressed into a small cake or bar; colloquially called a "pill".

Tablet may also refer to:

Electronic devices

  • Tablet computer
    Tablet computer
    A tablet computer, or simply tablet, is a complete mobile computer, larger than a mobile phone or personal digital assistant, integrated into a flat touch screen and primarily operated by touching the screen...

    , a mobile computer which is primarily operated by touching the screen
    • Microsoft Tablet PC
      Microsoft Tablet PC
      A Microsoft Tablet PC is a term coined by Microsoft for tablet computers conforming to a set of specifications announced in 2001 by Microsoft, for a pen-enabled personal computer, conforming to hardware specifications devised by Microsoft and running a licensed copy of Windows XP Tablet PC Edition...

      , a pen-enabled personal computer specification announced by Microsoft in 2001
    • Internet tablet
      Internet Tablet
      Nokia Internet Tablets is the name given to a range of Nokia mobile Internet appliances products. These tablets fall in the range between a personal digital assistant and an Ultra-Mobile PC , and slightly below Intel's Mobile Internet device .- Maemo :Nokia Internet Tablets run the Debian...

      , a mobile appliance focussed on Internet and media features
  • Graphics tablet
    Graphics tablet
    A graphics tablet is a computer input device that enables a user to hand-draw images and graphics, similar to the way a person draws images with a pencil and paper. These tablets may also be used to capture data or handwritten signatures...

     or digitizing tablet, a computer input device for capturing hand-drawn images and graphics

Inscription, printing, and writing mediums

  • Clay tablet
    Clay tablet
    In the Ancient Near East, clay tablets were used as a writing medium, especially for writing in cuneiform, throughout the Bronze Age and well into the Iron Age....

    , one of the earliest known writing mediums
  • Wax tablet
    Wax tablet
    A wax tablet is a tablet made of wood and covered with a layer of wax, often linked loosely to a cover tablet, as a "double-leaved" diptych. It was used as a reusable and portable writing surface in Antiquity and throughout the Middle Ages...

    , used as far back as ancient Greece
  • Wooden tablet, such as the Vindolanda tablets
    Vindolanda tablets
    The Vindolanda tablets are "the oldest surviving handwritten documents in Britain". They are also probably our best source of information about life on Hadrian's Wall. Written on fragments of thin, post-card sized wooden leaf-tablets with carbon-based ink, the tablets date to the 1st and 2nd...

  • Tabula ansata
    Tabula ansata
    A tabula ansata or tabella ansata is a tablet with dovetail handles. It was a favorite form for votive tablets in imperial Rome....

    , tablets with handles

Writings and publications

  • Tablet (religious)
    Tablet (religious)
    A tablet, in the religious context, is a term traditionally used for religious texts.Jews and Christians believe that Moses brought the Ten Commandments from Mount Sinai in the form of two stone tablets. According to the Book of Exodus, God delivered the tablets twice, the first set having been...

    , a traditional term used for certain religious texts
  • Tablet (newspaper)
    Tablet (newspaper)
    Tablet was a bi-weekly alternative newspaper in Seattle, Washington published from 2000-2005. Tablet's focus was on the music, arts, politics and culture of the Pacific Northwest.-History:...

    , a newspaper published in Seattle, Washington
  • The Tablet
    The Tablet
    The Tablet is a Catholic international weekly review published in London. Contributors to its pages have included Evelyn Waugh, Graham Greene, Pope Benedict XVI and Pope Paul VI ....

    , a Catholic magazine published in the United Kingdom
  • Tablet Magazine
    Tablet Magazine
    Tablet Magazine is a two-time National Magazine Award-winning online publication of Jewish life, arts, and ideas. Sponsored by Nextbook, it was launched in June 2009. Its Editor in Chief is Alana Newhouse....

    , a daily online magazine of Jewish news, ideas, and culture
  • TABLET the International Affairs Journal of George Mason University
    TABLET the International Affairs Journal of George Mason University
    TABLET, the International Affairs Journal of George Mason University, is an American journal of International Affairs and foreign policy published bi-annually at George Mason University. The publication was officially founded in April 2010 by students aiming to establish a widely-recognized journal...


Other uses

  • Tablet (confectionery), a medium-hard, sugary dessert from Scotland
  • Tableting
    Tableting
    Tableting is a method of confectionery manufacture that shares many similarities with tablet pharmaceutical production.A powder or granule mixture is prepared, a die mold is filled, and then the mixture is compressed and ejected. While drug tablets are constrained to shapes that can be swallowed...

    , a confectionery manufacturing process
  • Tyers Electric Train Tablet
    Tyers Electric Train Tablet
    Tyer's Electric Train Tablet system is a form of railway signalling for single line railways used in several countries; it was first devised in Great Britain by engineer Edward Tyer after the Thorpe rail accident of 1874, which left 21 people dead...

    , a system of controlling access to single-track railway lines in Britain
  • Tablet, a section of columns in a range of rows in Google's BigTable
    BigTable
    BigTable is a compressed, high performance, and proprietary database system built on Google File System , Chubby Lock Service, SSTable and a few other Google technologies; it is currently not distributed nor is it used outside of Google, although Google offers access to it as part of their Google...

    file system
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