Tabulate \Tab"u*late\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Tabulated}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Tabulating}.] [L. tabula a table. See {Tabular}.] 1. To form into a table or tables; to reduce to tables or synopses.
A philosophy is not worth the having, unless its results may be tabulated, and put in figures. --I. Taylor.
2. To shape with a flat surface.
Mr. Schumann faxed orders to controllers at 30 plants from California to Venezuela to tabulate dozens of scenarios for their expected costs of natural gas and diesel fuel.
What caught his imagination was a suitcased-sized electronic calculator dreamed up in IBM's own laboratories to tabulate a payroll - and doing it 10 times faster than IBM's electromechanical tabulating machines.