tessellation
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English
Etymology
From tessellate + -ion.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /tɛsəˈleɪʃən/
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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.
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Translations
the property or fact of tessellating
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tiling pattern with no gaps; the result of tessellating an area or plane
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polygon tessellation — see polygon tessellation
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See also
tessellation on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Anagrams
French
Etymology
Pronunciation
Noun
tessellation f (plural tessellations)