Tablet Explained

Tablet may refer to:

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)