Tableau

Quick meaning: Tableau is a noun meaning A striking and vivid representation or scene; a picture.

Meaning

A striking and vivid representation or scene; a picture.

More Meanings

1. A vivid graphic scene of a group of people or objects arranged as in a painting or bas relief sculpture.
2. (mathematics) A two-dimensional array or table of data, usually numbers, of various specific kinds.
3. (linguistics, optimality theory) A table that shows constraint violations of a list of candidates given an input and a constraint ranking.
4. (card games) Mostly in solitaire card games, but also in other card and board games, the main area, where random cards can be arranged.
5. (logic) A semantic tableau.
6. (theater) A unit of a play, an opera, or a ballet with change of stage setting.
7. (UK, dated, by extension) 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").

Example Sentences

[…] several scenes from the first act were consolidated into one tableau […]

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.

Folding chairs had been placed at prudent distances, and masks were dutifully worn. An Australian Labradoodle belonging to the home’s owners strutted among the guests. Despite the breezy suburban tableau, the occasion was fraught.

Stefania Chlouveraki, the project leader, stands at a long sorting table. She turns the colored fragments over and over in her fingertips. She fits each one into its place: a magnificent tableau of lions, crosses, pomegranate trees.

Word Forms

• tableaux
• tableaus

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include picture, painting, chalkboard, blackboard, schedule, tabular.

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