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A table is a form of furniture with a flat and satisfactory horizontal upper surface used to support objects of interest, for storage, show, and/or manipulation. The surface must be held stable; for reasons of simplicity, this is done by support from below by either a columnor “base” or at least three columnar “stands”.
A table is also known as a bar, a bench, a board, a bureau, a desk, a lectern and a pulpit.
Common design elements include:
Desks are tables specifically intended for information-manipulation tasks, including writing and use of interactive electronics.
The term “table” is derived from a merger of French table and Old English tabele, ultimately from the Latin word tabula, “a board, plank, flat top piece”. In Late Latin, tabula took over the meaning previously reserved to mensa (preserved in Spanish and Portuguese mesa “table”). In Old English, the word was bord, replaced by “table” for this meaning.
Tables come in a wide variety of materials, shapes, and heights,…