Tabletop

Tabletop

Tabletop can refer to:
* Table Top Mountain (New York)
* Tabletop, New South Wales, a rural village in Australia between Sydney and Melbourne.
** Table Mountain in Capetown, South Africa

* In experimental physics jargon, a device or installation that fits into an average laboratory, as opposed to one that requires its own building. Inventing a tabletop device for a task that used to require a huge installation is usually considered great progress.
** Tabletop fusion is any technique that allows for nuclear fusion (without energy gain, however) in a tabletop experiment.

* The general concept of tabletop games, which encompasses several classes of games that can also be referred to individually as "Tabletop", including:
** Traditional role-playing games, as opposed to role-playing video games
** Tabletop wargaming
** Tabletop football


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