Meaning & use

tabulation

noun·Academic

The process of arranging data or figures into columns and rows for clarity.

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The report included a tabulation of monthly sales across every region.

After the votes were counted, tabulation revealed a narrow but clear winner.

A note on using this word

Tabulation refers specifically to organizing information into a table, distinct from simply calculating or summarizing it.

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