tablet
n. countablen. a small, flat computer that you control by touching the screen. It can also mean a small piece of solid medicine that you swallow.
n. a portable, wireless computing device with a touchscreen interface. In a medical context, a small, solid dose of medication, typically disk-shaped or cylindrical.
I use my tablet to watch movies on the train.
The doctor told him to take one tablet with water every morning before breakfast.
While smartphones offer portability and laptops provide processing power, the tablet occupies a middle ground, serving as an ideal medium for digital illustration and casual media consumption.
From Middle English tablet, from Old French tablete (Modern French tablette), diminutive of table (“table”).
In computing, it refers to the hardware device; in medicine, it is often used interchangeably with 'pill' in casual speech.