Tableau

Tableau (plural: tableaux (UK) or tableaus (US); from the French diminutive of "table", sometimes meaning "picture") may mean:

Logic and math

• Tableau, as used in short and long division
• A cryptographic tableau used in manual cipher systems
• Tableau (linguistics), a method of evaluating ranked constraints over a set of candidates, used in Optimality Theory
• Analytic tableau (also called a semantic tableau or truth tree), a proof procedure for various logics which builds a tree to search for counterexamples of a formula or argument.
• Young tableau, a combinatorial object built on partition diagrams
• Method of analytic tableaux (also semantic tableau), a technique of automated theorem proving in logic

Games

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

Other

• Tableau, a restaurant at Wynn Las Vegas
• Tableau series of four paintings by Piet Mondrian titled Tableau I through Tableau IV
• Tableau Software, software company providing tools for data visualization and business intelligence