Usually means: Visual arrangement for effective presentation.
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We found 27 dictionaries that define the word tableau:

General (24 matching dictionaries)
  1. tableau: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. tableau: Merriam-Webster
  3. tableau: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. tableau: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. tableau: Collins English Dictionary
  6. tableau: Vocabulary.com
  7. Tableau, tableau: Wordnik
  8. tableau: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. tableau: Wiktionary
  10. tableau: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. tableau: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. tableau: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. tableau: Dictionary.com
  14. tableau: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. Tableau (card game), Tableau: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Tableau: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. tableau: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. tableau: Rhymezone
  19. tableau, tableau (m): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. tableau: FreeDictionary.org
  21. tableau: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. tableau: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. tableau: Encyclopedia

Science (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Tableau: Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics
  2. Mathematical Programming (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  A striking and vivid representation or scene; a picture.
noun:  A vivid graphic scene of a group of people or objects arranged as in a painting or bas relief sculpture.
noun:  (UK, dated) Hence, an arrangement of actors in static positions on stage, having the effect of pointing up a particular moment in the drama, conventionally revealed by opening tableau curtains (known as "tabs").
noun:  (mathematics) A two-dimensional array or table of data, usually numbers, of various specific kinds.
noun:  (linguistics, optimality theory) A table that shows constraint violations of a list of candidates given an input and a constraint ranking.
noun:  (card games) Mostly in solitaire card games, but also in other card and board games, the main area, where random cards can be arranged.
noun:  (logic) A semantic tableau.
noun:  (theater) A unit of a play, an opera, or a ballet with change of stage setting.

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