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English
Etymology
tessellate + -ion
Pronunciation
Noun
tessellation (countable and uncountable, plural tessellations)
- (uncountable) The property or fact of tessellating.
Squares can be used for tessellation.
- (countable) 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.
2023 October 18, Nick Brodrick, “The grand gateway to Glasgow”, in RAIL, number 994, page 32: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.
- (less common) polygon tessellation.
Derived terms
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Translations
the property or fact of tessellating
tiling pattern with no gaps; the result of tessellating an area or plane
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Anagrams
French
Etymology
From tesseller + -ation.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /tɛ.sɛ.la.sjɔ̃/, /te.se.la.sjɔ̃/
Noun
tessellation f (plural tessellations)
- tessellation