Tablet may refer to:

Medicine

Tablet (pharmacy) A tablet (also known as a pill) is a pharmaceutical oral dosage form (''oral solid dosage'', or OSD) or solid unit dosage form. Tablets may be defined as the solid unit dosage form of medicament or medicaments with suitable excipients. It compri ...

, a mixture of pharmacological substances pressed into a small cake or bar, colloquially called a "pill"

Computing

Tablet computer A tablet computer, commonly shortened to tablet, is a mobile device, typically with a mobile operating system and touchscreen display processing circuitry, and a rechargeable battery in a single, thin and flat package. Tablets, being comput ...

, 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) 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 Tableting is a method of pressing medicine or candy into tablets. Confectionery manufacture shares many similarities with pharmaceutical A medication (also called medicament, medicine, pharmaceutical drug, medicinal drug or simply drug) ...

, a confectionery manufacturing process * A type of chocolate bar

Inscription, printing, and writing media

Clay tablet In the Ancient Near East, clay tablets (Akkadian ) were used as a writing medium, especially for writing in cuneiform, throughout the Bronze Age and well into the Iron Age. Cuneiform characters were imprinted on a wet clay tablet with a stylu ...

, one of the earliest known writing mediums *

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. C ...

, 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 tablet, in a religious context, is a term used for certain religious texts. In the Hebrew Bible Judaism and Christianity maintain that Moses brought the Ten Commandments down from Mount Sinai in the form of two tablets of stone. According to ...

, a traditional term used for certain religious texts * ''The Tablet'' (Diocese of Brooklyn), a Catholic newspaper published in the United States * '' The Tablet'', a Catholic magazine published in the United Kingdom

Other uses

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Tabula rasa ''Tabula rasa'' (; "blank slate") is the theory that individuals are born without built-in mental content, and therefore all knowledge comes from experience or perception. Epistemological proponents of ''tabula rasa'' disagree with the doctri ...

'', the theory originating with Aristotle of the newborn mind as an uninscribed tablet or blank slate * Tablet is a form of

token (railway signalling) In railway signalling, a token is a physical object which a train driver is required to have or see before entering onto a particular section of single track. The token is clearly endorsed with the names of the section it belongs to. A token sys ...

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 d ...