tessellate
English
Alternative forms
- tesselate (chiefly U.S.)
Etymology
From Latin tessellatus, from tessella, diminutive of tessera; from Ancient Greek τέσσαρες (téssares), from Proto-Indo-European *kʷetwóres.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈtɛsəleɪt/
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Verb
tessellate (third-person singular simple present tessellates, present participle tessellating, simple past and past participle tessellated)
- (transitive) To cover with tiles or stones, as a mosaic; to tile.
- (intransitive, geometry) Of a two-dimensional shape, such that multiple copies of itself placed edge to edge cover an area leaving no space between the shapes.
- (transitive, geometry) 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.
Derived terms
Translations
to completely fill with multiple copies of a two-dimensional shape edge to edge
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