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tessellation - Wiktionary, the free dictionary

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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.
    • ✤ 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.1
  • (less common) polygon tessellation.

Etymology

From tessellate + -ion.

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /tɛsəˈleɪʃən/
  • Audio (General American): 🔊

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Footnotes

  1. 2023 October 18, Nick Brodrick, “The grand gateway to Glasgow”, in RAIL, number 994, page 32: ↩

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