Noun

(en noun)

The act or process of tabulating.

* 1997 : Chris Horrocks, Introducing Foucault , page 69 (Totem Books, Icon Books; ISBN 1840460865)

I’m using mathesis' — a universal science of '''measurement''' and '''order''' …
And there is also '''taxinomia''' a principle of '''classification''' and ordered ''''''tabulation''''''.
Knowledge replaced universal resemblance with finite differences. History was arrested and turned into tables …
Western reason had entered the ' age of judgement .

A result of tabulating: a table, displaying data in compact form.

Here is a tabulation of baseless claims made in the last month.

(computing) A printout.

Noun

(en noun)

(literally)   The arrangement of support beams that represent a building's general shape and size.

(figuratively)   The larger branches of a tree that determine its shape.

(figuratively, especially in, computing)   A basic conceptual structure.

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These ‘three principles of connexion’ comprise the framework of principles in Hume's account of the association of ideas.

(literally)   The identification and categorisation of processes or steps that constitute a complex task or mindset in order to render explicit the tacit and implicit.