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tessellates

tessellates is the third-person singular simple present indicative of tessellate.

Meaning of tessellate

Verb

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; to tile.
  2. (intransitive) to cover 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) 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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Questions about tessellates

What is tessellates the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Tessellates is the third-person singular simple present indicative of tessellate.

Words near tessellates in the dictionary

  1. tessellate morays
  2. tessellated
  3. tessellated epithelia
  4. tessellated epithelium
  5. tessellately
  6. tessellates
  7. tessellating
  8. tessellation
  9. tessellations
  10. Tessema
  11. Tessemas

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