tilings

Noun

tiling (countable and uncountable, plural tilings)

1. A covering of tiles.
   • All the tiling in the bathroom must be removed because of water damage to the wood under it.
2. (uncountable) The act of applying tiles.
   • We spent all day doing the tiling in the bathroom.
3. A tessellation; the covering of a plane with shapes, without overlaps or gaps.
4. A technique for optimizing loops by partitioning the iteration space into smaller chunks or blocks that will more easily fit in a cache.