How to pronounce “tableau”

Meaning

• [Noun]
• A striking and vivid representation or scene; a picture.
• A vivid graphic scene of a group of people or objects arranged as in a painting or bas relief sculpture.
• (UK, dated, by extension) An arrangement of actors in static positions on stage, having the effect of pointing up a particular moment in the drama, conventionally revealed by opening tableau curtains (known as "tabs").
• (mathematics) A two-dimensional array or table of data, usually numbers, of various specific kinds.
• (linguistics, optimality theory) A table that shows constraint violations of a list of candidates given an input and a constraint ranking.
• (card games) Mostly in solitaire card games, but also in other card and board games, the main area, where random cards can be arranged.
• (logic) A semantic tableau.
• (theater) A unit of a play, an opera, or a ballet with change of stage setting.

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