tabula

noun7

1. •
   A plate or frame on which a title or inscription is carved.

   • The tabula is here seen to have an irregular structure of coarse mesh whose interstices are occupied by a finer mesh. — 1937
2. •
   A writing-tablet, slate, or similar medium on which to write.

   • On the tabula of the mind she tried to write the word. — 2010
3. •
   (historical) An ancient Roman game similar to backgammon that was played on a board with 24 divisions.

   • Readers may like to make a tabula board and try a simple game from France using two cubic dice. — 1974
4. •
   A table, index, or list of data.

   • Another tabula on third fly-leaf, and some writing in a later hand. Titles and initials throughout in red and blue. — 1908
5. •
   A legal record.

   • The soldiers who dedicated the tabula to the empress might have had a personal connection with her, but if so, it was not a typical relationship. — 2013
6. •
   One of the transverse plates found in the calicles of certain corals and hydroids.

   • Frontal with a tabula, with a crescent of small, slit-like pores. — 1968
7. •
   A frontal; a drapery for an altar.

   • Another tabula in the Textile Museum in Washington D.C. probably belonged to the same textile. — 2004