tessellation

tessellate +‎ -ion

• IPA^(key): /tɛsəˈleɪʃən/

tessellation (countable and uncountable, plural tessellations)

1. (uncountable) The property or fact of tessellating.

   Squares can be used for tessellation.

2. (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.

   • 2023 October 18, Nick Brodrick, “The grand gateway to Glasgow”, in RAIL, number 994, page 32:

     Decorative arches intersect the graceful latticework of the expansive ridge and furrow trainshed rooves, woven together by a staggering tessellation of 48,000 glass panels.

3. (less common) polygon tessellation.

• polygon tessellation
• regular tessellation
• semiregular tessellation

• tessellate

• Wikipedia article on tessellation
• Mathworld article on tessellation

• stellionates

From tesseller +‎ -ation.

• IPA^(key): /tɛ.sɛ.la.sjɔ̃/, /te.se.la.sjɔ̃/

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tessellation f (plural tessellations)

1. tessellation