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tablet, tablet, tablet computer
tablet (TAB let) (noun)
A portable writing pad, typically paper: "Trina used a tablet and pencil to take notes while in class."
tablet (TAB let) (noun)
A small, flat form of compressed medicine, a vitamin, etc.: "Did you take your vitamin C tablet as well as the other tablets this morning, Monroe?"
tablet computer (TAB let kuhm PYOO tuhr) (noun)
In general, a tablet computer, or tablet laptop, is a wireless personal computer that allows a user to take notes using natural handwriting with a stylus or digital pen on a touch screen: "A tablet computer is similar in size and thickness to a yellow paper notepad and is intended to function as the user's primary personal computer as well as a note-taking device."

"Someone has written that a tablet computer, or tablet laptop, is fast and runs many programs at the same time without lagging and freezing."

The doctor wrote directions for the change in medication about a new prescription tablet which stated that the patient should take one tablet of the new medication every three hours; then, he also recorded the information on his tablet computer.

(Latin: a code of laws, a writing tablet; an account book; secret writing; originally, "the trunk of a tree")
(Greek: writing-tablet)
Word Entries containing the term: “tablet
electronic tablet, digitizing pad, digitizing tablet, data tablet, digitizer
1. A data-entry device consisting of stylus, writing surface, and circuitry that produces a pair of digital coordinate values corresponding continuously to the position of the stylus upon the surface.
2. A direct input device with a special pen or cross-hairs with which the user traces the image to be digitized.

The coordinates at selected points are automatically recorded.

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tablet
A small table
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tablet (TAB lit) (s) (noun), tablets (pl)
1. A writing pad comprised of paper that is fastened along one edge: Each student was instructed to have a pencil, or a pen, and a tablet with lined paper.
2. A thin metal plaque placed on a monument to indicate that it is a memorial: The statue had a bronze tablet listing the town's war heroes.
3. Small pills or pellets of something, frequently for medication: The doctor told Lenora to take two aspirin tablets, go to bed and then she would get relief from her pain and fever.

Tablets' tale of Russia's nuclear victims

The tablets were simple, and understated, so much so that some residents and many regular visitors had never noticed them.

The top tablet bore the alpha-beta-gamma symbol of radiation. The bottom one said: "To the victims of radioactive catastrophes, their courage and devotion to duty."

The tablets are among 40 or so memorials across Russia that commemorate not only Chernobyl, but also earlier disasters, or nuclear tests, that were kept secret for decades; near Chelyabinsk in 1957, at Semipalatinsk in 1949, and all who died or suffered by joining the hundreds of thousands of people who were drafted or who volunteered to clean up and encase the reactor or the "liquidation" of the Chernobyl accident, as the Soviet authorities called it.

—Excerpts compiled from
"The tablets' tale: Remembering Russia's nuclear victims" by Alison Smale;
International Herald Tribune; August 25, 2009; pages 1 and 3.
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