Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Tablet \Ta"blet\, n. [F. tablette, dim. of table. See {Table}.]
   1. A small table or flat surface.

   2. A flat piece of any material on which to write, paint,
      draw, or engrave; also, such a piece containing an
      inscription or a picture.

   3. Hence, a small picture; a miniature. [Obs.]

   4. pl. A kind of pocket memorandum book.

   5. A flattish cake or piece; as, tablets of arsenic were
      formerly worn as a preservative against the plague.

   6. (Pharm.) A solid kind of electuary or confection, commonly
      made of dry ingredients with sugar, and usually formed
      into little flat squares; -- called also {lozenge}, and
      {troche}, especially when of a round or rounded form.

Source : WordNet®

tablet
     n 1: a slab of stone or wood suitable for bearing an inscription
     2: a number of sheets of paper fastened together along one edge
        [syn: {pad}, {pad of paper}]
     3: a small flat compressed cake of some substance; "a tablet of
        soap"
     4: a dose of medicine in the form of a small pellet [syn: {pill},
         {lozenge}, {tab}]

Source : Free On-Line Dictionary of Computing

TABLET
     
        A {query language}.
     
        ["Human Factor Comparison of a Procedural and a Non-procedural
        Query Language", C. Welty et al, ACM Trans Database Sys
        6(4):626-649 (Dec 1981)].
     
        (1994-11-23)