Tablet

Tablet may refer to:

Computing

• Tablet computer, a mobile computer that is primarily operated by touching the screen
  • Internet tablet, a mobile appliance focused on Internet and media features
  • Microsoft Tablet PC, a pen-enabled personal computer specification announced by Microsoft in 2001
• Graphics tablet or digitizing tablet, a computer input device for capturing hand-drawn images and graphics

Medicine

• Tablet (pharmacy), a mixture of pharmacological substances pressed into a small cake or bar, colloquially called a "pill"

Inscription, printing, and writing media

• 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

See also

• Plaque (disambiguation)
• Stele
• Tablet PC (disambiguation)