tableau

1. (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").UKbroadlydated

2. (mathematics) A two-dimensional array or table of data, usually numbers, of various specific kinds.Examples: "For the tableau shown, there are three distinct procedures (one for each standard Young tableau of shape (2,1,1) with entries 1, 2, 3, and 4) for obtaining a Young tableau."

3. (linguistics, optimality theory) A table that shows constraint violations of a list of candidates given an input and a constraint ranking.

4. (card games) Mostly in solitaire card games, but also in other card and board games, the main area, where random cards can be arranged.

5. (logic) A semantic tableau.

6. (theater) A unit of a play, an opera, or a ballet with change of stage setting.Examples: "[…] several scenes from the first act were consolidated into one tableau […]"; "As creative as it might have been, it appeared disjointed, with the sense of many things happening simultaneously, and the promenading performances jumping from one idea to the next – from a cancan to a gothic tableau featuring mock-beheaded women at the windows of the Conciergerie with red streamers that looked like macabre spurting blood."