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rep-tile

noun

Etymology

Coined as a pun on reptile by US mathematician Solomon W. Golomb. See repeat and tile.

Definitions

  1. A shape that can be dissected into a number of smaller copies of the same shape.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for rep-tile. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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