tabling
noun
- make available for consideration
- act of postponing consideration of
Wiktionary
noun
- A forming into (graphic) tables; a display in tabular form.
- The letting of one timber into another by alternate scores or projections, as in shipbuilding; a crude form of dovetailing.
- A broad hem on the edge of a sail.
“On the luffs and after leaches of jibs the tabling ought to be 3 inches, on the foot 1 inches”
- A setting-aside of a topic from discussion.
“The Woodstock Town Board dropped the controversial anti-discrimination ordinance after a meeting marked by a series of tablings and withdrawals of various resolutions.”
- The introduction of a topic to a discussion.
- Representing a company or organization (at an exposition, fair, etc.), usually at a booth or display.
- board; support
“My daughter hath there already now of me ten poundes, which I account to be given for her tabling : after this ten poundes will follow another, for her apparel”
- The uses of a table that contains the results of subproblems which can then be used later in the solving of a problem when the same subproblem arises again.
verb
- present participle and gerund of table