MEANING
The arrangement of information in rows and columns, or a table produced by that process.
Use it for
describing the organization of results into a table; distinguishing data presentation from interpretation; summarizing counts across categoriesNames systematic arrangement into a table, rather than analysis or interpretation of the resulting pattern. Academic functions: Research / Methodology.
Words that belong together
- tabulation of results
- tabulation of data
- cross-tabulation of responses
On the page
The tabulation of responses made missing categories visible.
The table provides a tabulation of observations, not an explanation of why the pattern occurs.
Nearby words
Word forms
- Base
- tabulation
Usage notes
Usually uncountable for the process; countable a tabulation, plural tabulations, for a particular tabular presentation. Register: formal. Commonness: moderately common (qualitative editorial estimate, informed by dictionaries/corpus).
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