tessellate
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- tesselate (chiefly U.S.)
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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.
- (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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Tessellate on Wikipedia.Wikipedia- Mosaic on Wikipedia.Wikipedia:Mosaic
- Tile on Wikipedia.Wikipedia:Tile
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[edit] Adjective
tessellāte
- vocative masculine singular of tessellātus
