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tesselation

tesselation is the alternative spelling of tessellation.

Meaning of tessellation

Noun

tessellation (countable and uncountable, plural tessellations)

  1. (uncountable) The property or fact of tessellating.
    • Squares can be used for tessellation.
  2. (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.
  3. (uncommon) polygon tessellation.

Forms of tesselation

pluraltesselations

Questions about tesselation

What is tesselation the alternative spelling of?
Tesselation is the alternative spelling of tessellation.

Words near tesselation in the dictionary

  1. tesselar
  2. tesselate
  3. tesselated
  4. tesselates
  5. tesselating
  6. tesselation
  7. tesselations
  8. tessella
  9. tessellae
  10. tessellar
  11. tessellate

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Adapted from Wiktionary: tesselation (page history and authors); tessellation (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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