/tab"leuh cheuhr, -choor'/ , n.
1. Music. any of various systems of music notation using letters, numbers, or other signs to indicate the strings, frets, keys, etc., to be played.
2. a tabular space, surface, or structure.
[ 1565-75; tabula board) of It intavolatura, deriv. of intavolare to put on a board, score ]