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tessellation

noun
/tɛsəˈleɪʃən/

Etymology

From tessellate + -ion.

  1. derived from *kʷetwóres✻
  2. derived from τέσσαρες
  3. learned borrowing from tessellātus
  4. suffixed as tessellation — “tessellate + ion”

Definitions

  1. The property or fact of tessellating.

    • Squares can be used for tessellation.

  2. A tiling pattern with no gaps

    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.

The neighborhood

Derived

polygon tessellation, regular tessellation, semiregular tessellation

Vish — recursive loop

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

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA