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tessellation

noun

  1. tiling of a plane using one or more geometric shapes, called tiles, with no overlaps and no gaps
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Wiktionary

Pronunciation: /tɛsəˈleɪʃən/

noun

Etymology: Etymology tree Latin tessellātuslbor. English tessellate Proto-Indo-European *-tis Proto-Indo-European *-Hō Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō Proto-Italic *-tiō Latin -tiō Latin -ātiōlbor. Old French -ationbor. Middle English -acioun English -ation English -ion English tessellation From tessellate + -ion.

  1. The property or fact of tessellating.

    “Squares can be used for tessellation.”

  2. A tiling pattern with no gaps; the result of tessellating an area or plane.

    “This is a tessellation of the plane with squares and regular octagons.”

    “Decorative arches intersect the graceful latticework of the expansive ridge and furrow trainshed rooves, woven together by a staggering tessellation of 48,000 glass panels.”

  3. polygon tessellation.