tableau UK /ˈtæ.bləʊ/US /tæˈbloʊ/ noun8 •A striking and vivid representation or scene; a picture. •A vivid graphic scene of a group of people or objects arranged as in a painting or bas relief sculpture. •(UK) 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"). •A unit of a play, an opera, or a ballet with change of stage setting.[…] several scenes from the first act were consolidated into one tableau […] — 1994 •Mostly in solitaire card games, but also in other card and board games, the main area, where random cards can be arranged. •A two-dimensional array or table of data, usually numbers, of various specific kinds.For the tableau shown, there are three distinct procedures (one for each standard Young tableau of shape (2,1,1) with entries 1, 2, 3, and 4) for obtaining a Young tableau. — 1994 •A table that shows constraint violations of a list of candidates given an input and a constraint ranking. •A semantic tableau. formstableaus · tableaux