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Tessellate
Tes′sel-late
,Verb.
T.
[
imp. & p. p.
Tessellated
; p. pr. & vb. n.
Tessellating
.] [L.
tessellatus
tessellated. See Tessellar
.] To form into squares or checkers; to lay with checkered work.
The floors are sometimes of wood,
tessellated
after the fashion of France. Macaulay.
Tes′sel-late
,Adj.
[L.
tesselatus
.] Tessellated.
Definition 2024
tessellate
tessellate
English
Alternative forms
- tesselate (chiefly U.S.)
Verb
tessellate (third-person singular simple present tessellates, present participle tessellating, simple past and past participle tessellated)
- (transitive) To cover with tiles or stones, as a mosaic; to tile.
- (intransitive, geometry) Of a two-dimensional shape, such that multiple copies of itself placed edge to edge cover an area leaving no space between the shapes.
- (transitive, geometry) To completely fill (an area) when multiple copies of one or more two-dimensional shapes are placed edge to edge.
- It is possible to tessellate the plane with equilateral triangles and regular hexagons.
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Translations
to completely fill with multiple copies of a two-dimensional shape edge to edge
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