tiling
/ˈtaɪlɪŋ/
tiling noun: a covering of tiles. Also the present participle and gerund of tile.
Noun
tiling (countable and uncountable, plural tilings)
- A covering of tiles.
- All the tiling in the bathroom must be removed because of water damage to the wood under it.
- The act of applying tiles.
- We spent all day doing the tiling in the bathroom.
- A tessellation; the covering of a plane with shapes, without overlaps or gaps.
- A technique for optimizing loops by partitioning the iteration space into smaller chunks or blocks that will more easily fit in a cache.
Also used as
tiling is also the present participle and gerund of tile.
Examples of tiling in a sentence
- After waiting two years for her husband to finish the tiling, she decided to hire it done.
- We consider the problem of counting and classifying domino tilings of a quadriculated torus.
- Above was a tiled roof – though from that imperfect tiling exhaled stench and pestilence.
Forms of tiling
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Words formed from tiling
Words that rhyme with tiling
Questions about tiling
- What does tiling mean?
- Tiling means a covering of tiles.
- What part of speech is tiling?
- Tiling is a noun.
- How do you pronounce tiling?
- Tiling is pronounced /ˈtaɪlɪŋ/.
- What is the plural of tiling?
- The plural of tiling is tilings.
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