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Noun
tessellation
(
countable
and
uncountable
;
plural
tessellations
)
The property or fact of
tessellate|tessellating
.
:
Squares can be used for tessellation.
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.
A less common name for
polygon tessellation
.
Translations
French:
pavage
,
dallage
Italian:
tessellazione
,
tassellazione
Derived terms
polygon tessellation
regular tessellation
semiregular tessellation
Related terms
tessellate
See also
w:tessellation|Wikipedia article on tessellation
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vi:tessellation
GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
Tessellation \Tes`sel*la"tion\, n.
The act of tessellating; also, the mosaic work so formed.
--J. Forsyth.
[1913 Webster]
WordNet
tessellation
n 1: the careful juxtaposition of shapes in a pattern; "a
tessellation of hexagons"
2: the act of adorning with mosaic
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