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tessellated

tessellated

1 8.4
A surface covered with small shapes like tiles that fit closely together
  • adjective
  • /ˈtɛsəˌleɪtɪd/
translation icon : teselado
  • The drumming of rain on the skylights ceased, and a sudden burst of sunlight washed across the tessellated floor.
  • a tessellated floor

Examples

  • This is the ideal time, by the way, to drop one of these tiny screws down that the tessellated holes in the back.

  • The Nunciator's Confirmatory lay wide, bare, and clean, for the tessellated floor was swept by a powerful draft.

    Fiction book (1992)

  • So this is tessellated model which looks like that.

  • So tell me tessellated, we've all seen that word and we think we know what it means.

  • It does look very much like a tessellated version of the photo; many flowers are in the same pattern and the same state of blooming.

    Blog text (33)

  • Tessellated grids clotted.

    Fiction book (1999)

  • The center of the pavilion is a great banqueting hall with a domed roof thirty feet above the tessellated pavement.

    Blog text (22)

  • The "many miles of walks or rides" that Pliny the Elder describes as compressed into tessellated floors of the labyrinth may also prompt a nexus.

    Academic text (2011)

  • By noon he had one, a tiny tessellated cone he hoped couldn't paralyze a housecat, and he dropped it in a mug with some seawater.

    Fiction book (2001)

  • The courtyard was beautifully designed with a tessellated pattern of colorful tiles.

Synonyms

inlaid
vstessellated
1 6.1

An object that has small pieces of another material set into its surface in a pattern

is made of small, interlocking shapes rather than embedded material pieces
patterned
vstessellated
1 3.4

Covered with a repeated design of lines, shapes, or colors

focuses on many small shapes that fit together without gaps as a mosaic
tiled
vstessellated
2.3

Covered with small flat pieces of hard material on a wall, floor, or roof

uses many small shapes that fit tightly to form a decorative surface

How Patterned

tessellated
1 8.4
tiled
2.3
patterned
1 3.4
plain
208 1.0

Surface Forms

tessellated positive

Morphology

tessellated = tessellate (transparent) = tessellate + ed

Formed from the verb 'tessellate' plus the participial/adjectival suffix '-ed', meaning 'covered with a tessellated pattern', which is directly derivable.

Etymology

Tessellated comes from the Latin word tessella, which means 'small tile' or 'little square', and it makes you think of many tiles fitting together like a mosaic. That's why something tessellated is covered with a pattern of small shapes that join with no gaps.