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monotiles

monotiles is the plural of monotile.

Meaning of monotile

Noun

monotile (plural monotiles)

  1. A prototile tiling monohedrally; any shape able to completely tile some space on its own (allowing for translation, rotation, and reflection).
    • In the following section we will describe families of tilings by a curious three-dimensional aperiodic monotile whose matching rule — for some values of its parameter — is weak but not strong.1995, Marjorie Senechal, Quasicrystals and Geometry, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 208

Questions about monotiles

What is monotiles the plural of?
Monotiles is the plural of monotile.

Words near monotiles in the dictionary

  1. monothiophosphate
  2. monothiophosphates
  3. monotic
  4. monotically
  5. monotile
  6. monotiles
  7. monotiling
  8. monotilings
  9. monotimbral
  10. monotint
  11. monotints

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