Tableau

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Tableau (French for 'little table' literally, also used to mean 'picture'; pl. tableaux or, rarely, tableaus) may refer to:

Arts

• Tableau, more properly tableau vivant, motionless performance in theatre evoking a painting or sculpture; or a painting or photograph evoking such a theatrical scene rather than a more naturalistic depiction
• Tableau, in opera, ballet, and some other dramatic forms, another word for scene
• Tableau, a series of four paintings by Piet Mondrian titled Tableau I through Tableau IV

Games

• Tableau (solitaire), a specific solitaire card game
• Tableaux, stacks of playing cards in which gameplay (varying by the specific type of solitaire) occurs; see solitaire terminology

Logic, mathematics, and sciences

• Analytic tableaux (also, semantic tableau, or truth tree), a technique of automated theorem proving in logic
• Tableau, another term for a table of data, particularly:
  • Cryptographic tableau, or tabula recta, used in manual cipher systems
  • Division tableau, a table used to do long division
• Young tableau, a combinatorial object built on partition diagrams

Organizations and businesses

• Tableau Software, a company providing tools for data visualization and business intelligence

See also

• Tableau économique, 18th century model showing interdependence of different economic classes1.
• Table (disambiguation)