tessellate

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Contents 1 English 1.1 Alternative spellings 1.2 Pronunciation 1.3 Verb 1.3.1 Derived terms 1.3.2 Related terms 1.3.3 See also

[edit] English

[edit] Alternative spellings

• tesselate (chiefly U.S.)

[edit] Pronunciation

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[edit] Verb

to tessellate (third-person singular simple present tessellates, present participle tessellating, simple past and past participle tessellated)

1. (transitive) To cover with tiles or stones, as a mosaic.
2. (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.

   Regular hexagons tessellate.

3. (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.

[edit] Derived terms

• tessellation

[edit] Related terms

• tessella
• tessera

[edit] See also

• Tessellate on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Mosaic on Wikipedia.Wikipedia:Mosaic
• Tile on Wikipedia.Wikipedia:Tile