Tubular
Tubular may refer to:
- the form of a cylinder or tube
- Tubular, a television-related entertainment blog on the Houston Chronicle website
- Tubular, a level in the video game Super Mario World
- Tubular, surf culture slang for cool or awesome, derived from catching a wave and getting in the tube
- Tubulars (people), a former ethnic group in Russia
The adjective is often applied to items which are somewhat tubular in shape:
- Tubular bell, musical instruments (also known as chimes) in the percussion family
- Tubular bridge, a bridge built as a rigid box girder section, with the traffic carried within the section
- Tubular chassis or superleggera, a type of automobile construction technique used only in expensive sports cars
- Tubular Gallery, a large diameter, round, tubular steel structure used to enclose a troughed conveyor belt
- Tubular lock pick, a specialized lockpicking tool used for opening a tubular pin locking cylinder
- Tubular NDT, a nondestructive method of testing industrial products for hidden defects
- Tubular neighborhood, a mathematical concept
- Tubular-pneumatic action, a playing action for pipe organs, in which key and stop activity is transmitted from the console to the windchest via pneumatic impulses traveling through tubes
- Tubular tyres, bicycle tires (tyres) which are glued onto their rims
The adjective is often applied to parts of the body which resemble or are composed of tube-like members:
- Tubular gland
- parts of the kidney:
- distal convoluted tubule
- uriniferous tubule
- tubular fluid, the fluid in the tubules of the kidney
Tubular Marguerite Bending
The Simpsons Abstract Geometric Tubular
Another reference to pop culture – idea came in DMT (as so many ideas…)