Tablet
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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
- 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