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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

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Tablet (confectionery) Tablet ( in Scots) is a medium-hard, sugary confection from Scotland. Tablet is usually made from sugar, condensed milk, and butter, which is boiled to a soft-ball stage and allowed to crystallise. It is often flavoured with vanilla and somet ...
, 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 A notebook (also known as a notepad, writing pad, drawing pad, or legal pad) is a book or stack of paper pages that are often ruled and used for purposes such as note-taking, journaling or other writing, drawing, or scrapbooking. History ...
of blank or lined paper, usually bound with glue or staples along one edge *
Stele A stele ( ),Anglicized plural steles ( ); Greek plural stelai ( ), from Greek , ''stēlē''. The Greek plural is written , ''stēlai'', but this is only rarely encountered in English. or occasionally stela (plural ''stelas'' or ''stelæ''), whe ...
, slab of stone or wood erected as a monument or marker * ''
Tabula ansata A tabula ansata or tabella ansata (Latin for "tablet with handles", plural ''tabulae ansatae'' or ''tabellae ansatae'') is a tablet with dovetail handles. It was a favorite form for votive tablets in Imperial Rome. Overview ''Tabulae ansatae' ...
'', 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

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Plaque (disambiguation) Plaque may refer to: Commemorations or awards * Commemorative plaque, a plate or tablet fixed to a wall to mark an event, person, etc. * Memorial Plaque (medallion), issued to next-of-kin of dead British military personnel after World War I * Pla ...
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