tablet
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From Old French tablete (French: tablette), diminutive of table (“‘table’”).
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tablet (plural tablets)
- (medicine) A small portion of a drug or other substances to be taken orally, of cylindrical shape, about three millimeter in height and about one centimeter in diameter.
- Many people take vitamin tablets as a food supplement.
- A slab of rock used for inscription.
- (computing) a graphics tablet
- (computing) a tablet computer, a type of portable computer
- (Scottish) A confection made from sugar, condensed milk and butter.
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- (medicine) pill
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