tessellation
The property or fact of tessellatingThe property or fact of tessellating.
» Tessellations have been used to create decorative motifs in both textiles and architecture since ancient times.
Meaning
3 senses(uncountable)The property or fact of tessellating.
Squares can be used for tessellation.
(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.
(countable, uncommon, uncountable)Polygon tessellation.
- the act of adorning with mosaic
- the careful juxtaposition of shapes in a pattern
Examples
3 sentencesTessellations have been used to create decorative motifs in both textiles and architecture since ancient times.
Mathematicians have finally discovered an aperiodic monotile, that is, a polygon that can only tile the plane in aperiodic tessellations.
The equilateral triangle, the square and the regular hexagon are the only regular polygons that can form a tessellation of the plane.
Translations
1 languagesForms
plural: tessellations| Singular | tessellation |
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Word family
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