Tessellate

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • v. To form into a mosaic pattern, as by using small squares of stone or glass.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • v. To cover with tiles or stones, as a mosaic.
  • v. Of a two-dimensional shape, such that multiple copies of itself placed edge to edge cover an area leaving no space between the shapes.
  • v. To completely fill (an area) when multiple copies of one or more two-dimensional shapes are placed edge to edge.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • v. To form into squares or checkers; to lay with checkered work.
  • adj. Tessellated.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Having the appearance of a mosaic pavement; made up of elements of such forms and arrangement as to produce the appearance of a mosaic pavement, as in the case of spicules of sponges and spines of echinoids which have their distal ends enlarged, flattened, of polygonal form, and closely arranged.
  • n. Something having a tessellated appearance.
  • To form by inlaying differently colored materials, as a pavement; hence, to variegate.
  • In zoology, same as tessellated, 3.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • v. tile with tesserae
  • v. fit together exactly, of identical shapes
    • Verb Form
    tessellated    tessellates    tessellating   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    tile    fit    go   
    Cross Reference
    variegated tessellate   
    Form
    tessellated    tessellating    tessellation   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    tessellated    inlay   
     
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