Tableau (French for 'little table' literally, also used to mean 'picture'; tableaux or, rarely, tableaus) may refer to:

Arts

* ''Tableau'', a series of four paintings by Piet Mondrian titled ''

Tableau I Pieter Cornelis Mondriaan (), after 1906 known as Piet Mondrian (, also , ; 7 March 1872 – 1 February 1944), was a Dutch painter and art theoretician who is regarded as one of the greatest artists of the 20th century. He is known for being ...

'' through to ''Tableau IV'' * ''

Tableau vivant A (; often shortened to ; plural: ), French for "living picture", is a static scene containing one or more actors or models. They are stationary and silent, usually in costume, carefully posed, with props and/or scenery, and may be theatrica ...

'', a motionless performance evoking a painting or sculpture; or a painting or photograph evoking such a theatrical scene *

Scene (drama) A scene is a dramatic part of a story, at a specific time and place, between specific characters. The term is used in both filmmaking and theatre, with some distinctions between the two. Theatre In drama, a scene is a unit of action, often a s ...

, in opera, ballet, and some other dramatic forms

Games

Tableau (card game) Tableau is a solitaire card game played with two decks of playing cards. It has a unique layout where all cards are open, and arranged to the left and right of the foundations, similar to Beleaguered Castle, Fortress, and other games in this famil ...

, a specific

patience (or forbearance) is the ability to endure difficult circumstances. Patience may involve perseverance in the face of delay; tolerance of provocation without responding in disrespect/anger; or forbearance when under strain, especially when face ...

card game *

Tableau (cards) Games of patience, or (card) solitaires as they are usually called in North America, have their own 'language' of specialised terms such as "building down", "packing", "foundations", "talon" and "tableau". Once learnt they are helpful in de ...

, the layout in patience and fishing card games *

Tableau (dominoes) The following is a glossary of terms used in dominoes. Besides the terms listed here, there are numerous regional or local slang terms. Terms in this glossary should not be game-specific, i.e. specific to one particular version of dominoes, but a ...

, the layout in dominoes

Other

* Tableau, another term for a

table Table may refer to: * Table (furniture), a piece of furniture with a flat surface and one or more legs * Table (landform), a flat area of land * Table (information), a data arrangement with rows and columns * Table (database), how the table data ...

of data, particularly: ** Cryptographic tableau, or

tabula recta In cryptography, the ''tabula recta'' (from Latin ''tabula rēcta'') is a square table of alphabets, each row of which is made by shifting the previous one to the left. The term was invented by the German author and monk Johannes TrithemiusSal ...

, used in manual cipher systems **

Division tableau In arithmetic, long division is a standard division algorithm suitable for dividing multi-digit Hindu-Arabic numerals ( Positional notation) that is simple enough to perform by hand. It breaks down a division problem into a series of easier ste ...

, a table used to do long division *

Method of analytic tableaux In proof theory, the semantic tableau (; plural: tableaux, also called truth tree) is a decision procedure for sentential and related logics, and a proof procedure for formulae of first-order logic. An analytic tableau is a tree structure computed ...

(also semantic tableau or truth tree), a technique of automated theorem proving in logic *

Tableau Software Tableau Software ( ) is an American interactive data visualization software company focused on business intelligence. It was founded in 2003 in Mountain View, California, and is currently headquartered in Seattle, Washington. In 2019 the comp ...

, a company providing tools for data visualization and business intelligence *

Young tableau In mathematics, a Young tableau (; plural: tableaux) is a combinatorial object useful in representation theory and Schubert calculus. It provides a convenient way to describe the group representations of the symmetric and general linear groups a ...

, a combinatorial object built on partition diagrams * Simplex tableau, a structured matrix used in the

simplex algorithm In mathematical optimization, Dantzig's simplex algorithm (or simplex method) is a popular algorithm for linear programming. The name of the algorithm is derived from the concept of a simplex and was suggested by T. S. Motzkin. Simplices are n ...

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