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tessellation

/tɛsəˈleɪʃən/

tessellation noun: the property or fact of tessellating.

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.
    • Decorative arches intersect the graceful latticework of the expansive ridge and furrow trainshed rooves, woven together by a staggering tessellation of 48,000 glass panels.2023 October 18, Nick Brodrick, “The grand gateway to Glasgow”, in RAIL, number 994, page 32
  3. (uncommon) polygon tessellation.

Examples of tessellation in a sentence

  • Using GeoGebra, construct an edge-to-edge tessellation with triangle, heptagon, and tetracontadigon.
  • Construct an edge-to-edge tessellation with a triangle, a heptagon, and a tetracontadigon.
  • In a semiregular tessellation, there is an isometry of the plane carrying any vertex to any other vertex.

All 12 example sentences with tessellation

Forms of tessellation

pluraltessellations

Origin of tessellation

From tessellate + -ion.

Words formed from tessellation

Questions about tessellation

What does tessellation mean?
Tessellation means the property or fact of tessellating.
What part of speech is tessellation?
Tessellation is a noun.
How do you pronounce tessellation?
Tessellation is pronounced /tɛsəˈleɪʃən/.
What is the plural of tessellation?
The plural of tessellation is tessellations.

Words near tessellation in the dictionary

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

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