'Tubular' definitions:
Definition of 'tubular'
From: WordNet
adjective
Constituting a tube; having hollow tubes (as for the passage of fluids) [syn: tubular, cannular, tubelike, tube-shaped, vasiform]
Definition of 'Tubular'
From: GCIDE
- Tubular \Tu"bu*lar\, a. [L. tubulus, dim. of tubus a tube, or pipe. See Tube.] Having the form of a tube, or pipe; consisting of a pipe; fistular; as, a tubular snout; a tubular calyx. Also, containing, or provided with, tubes. [1913 Webster]
- Tubular boiler. See under Boiler.
- Tubular breathing (Med.), a variety of respiratory sound, heard on auscultation over the lungs in certain cases of disease, resembling that produced by the air passing through the trachea.
- Tubular bridge, a bridge in the form of a hollow trunk or tube, made of iron plates riveted together, as the Victoria bridge over the St. Lawrence, at Montreal, Canada, and the Britannia bridge over the Menai Straits.
- Tubular girder, a plate girder having two or more vertical webs with a space between them. [1913 Webster]