tessellation
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- noun
- /ˌtɛsəˈleɪʃən/
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teselación
- She has drawn boxes around difficult words—epiphanies, antiphonal, tessellations, serrations—and placed a question mark above each box.
And so again, there's an interesting strategy about how am I actually going to lay roads through this tessellation of hexagons?
- And so again, there's an interesting strategy about how am I actually going to lay roads through this tessellation of hexagons?
- Complexity, tessellation, pyramids and sand dunes.
Examples
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OK, that's the expansion cover with the tessellation and all that uselessness.
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You erase the red stuff and you get your crease pattern and you fold it and you get this cool tessellation magic.
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It's not so obvious what to use, but one of the things that's convenient about this type of tessellation is that it's not very pointed.
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And so again, there's an interesting strategy about how am I actually going to lay roads through this tessellation of hexagons?
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Complexity, tessellation, pyramids and sand dunes.
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Also, tessellation is not constrained to simple geometric shapes, as MC Escher's work demonstrates.
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The periodic table of Platonic and Archimedean solids and tessellations is supplemented by the sequence of one of the infinite numbers of two-dimensional hyperbolic tessellations.
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The periodic table of Platonic and Archimedean solids and tessellations is supplemented by the sequence of one of the infinite numbers of two-dimensional hyperbolic tessellations.
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The artist created a stunning mural featuring a vibrant tessellation of colorful shapes that fit perfectly together.
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In the math class, we learned how to create a tessellation by repeating a simple geometric shape without any gaps.
Synonyms
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A repeated design like shapes or flowers on cloth
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An arrangement of tiles that covers a surface without gaps
A way parts fit together like interlocking fingers
How Regular
Surface Forms
Morphology
tessellation = tessellate (transparent) = tessellate + ion
The noun is a regular nominalization of the verb 'tessellate' with the suffix '-ion', so the meaning (the act or result of tessellating) follows directly from the base.
Etymology
The word tessellation comes from the Latin tessella, meaning 'small tile', and long ago from a Greek word for 'four' because tiles were often four-sided. Think of a floor of tiny tiles that fit together with no gaps or overlaps, which is why a tessellation is a pattern of shapes closely fitted together.