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Contents

  • 1 Medicine
  • 2 Computing
  • 3 Inscription, printing, and writing mediums
  • 4 Writings and publications
  • 5 Other uses
  • 6 See also

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 which is primarily operated by touching the screen
    • Microsoft Tablet PC, a pen-enabled personal computer specification announced by Microsoft in 2001
    • Internet tablet, a mobile appliance focused on Internet and media features
  • Graphics tablet or digitizing tablet, a computer input device for capturing hand-drawn images and graphics
  • Nook Tablet, a tablet computer sold by Barnes & Noble; this successor of the Nook Color was announced and made available in November, 2011

Inscription, printing, and writing mediums

  • Stele, earliest stone tablet inscriptions
  • Clay tablet, one of the earliest known writing mediums
  • Wax tablet, used as far back as ancient Greece, what scribes wrote on
  • Wooden tablet, such as the Vindolanda tablets
  • Tabula ansata, tablets with handles
  • Notebook of blank or lined paper, usually bound with glue or staples along one edge

Writings and publications

  • Tablet (religious), a traditional term used for certain religious texts
  • Tablet (newspaper), a newspaper published in Seattle, Washington
  • The Tablet, a Catholic magazine published in the United Kingdom
  • The Tablet (Diocese of Brooklyn), a Catholic newspaper published in the United States
  • Tablet Magazine, a daily online magazine of Jewish news, ideas, and culture
  • TABLET the International Affairs Journal of George Mason University

Other uses

  • Tablet (confectionery), a medium-hard, sugary dessert from Scotland
  • Tableting, a confectionery manufacturing process
  • Tyers Electric Train Tablet, 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 file system
  • Tabula rasa the theory originating with Aristotle of the newborn mind as an uninscribed tablet or blank slate

See also

  • Plaque (disambiguation)
  • Stele
  • Tablet PC (disambiguation)