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tessellate
For the rest of the afternoon, the word tessellate never failed to produce giggles.
From the scienceblogs.com
Cuboids are among those solids that can tessellate 3-dimensional space.
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They learned how to tessellate an asymmetric congruent figure, as Escher did in many of his creations.
From the tennessean.com
How these unconnected romantic triangles tessellate is the big mystery at the heart of this overwrought affair.
From the metro.co.uk
Klein showed that the modular group moves the fundamental region of the complex plane so as to tessellate that plane.
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Regular tetrahedra cannot tessellate space by themselves, although this result seems likely enough that Aristotle claimed it was possible.
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As well as tessellating the 2-dimensional Euclidean plane, it is also possible to tessellate other n-dimensional spaces by filling them with n-dimensional polytopes.
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Ross watches them at work in three relationships whose stories tessellate and bleed into one another in the manner of the images in the MC Escher prints with which the book is also obsessed.
From the guardian.co.uk
- Fit together exactly, of identical shapes; "triangles tessellate"
- Tile with tesserae; "tessellate the kitchen floor"
- (tessellated) having a checkered or mottled appearance
- (tessellated) decorated with small pieces of colored glass or stone fitted together in a mosaic; "a tessellated pavement"
- (tessellation) the careful juxtaposition of shapes in a pattern; "a tessellation of hexagons"
- (tessellation) the act of adorning with mosaic
- A tessellation or tiling of the plane is a collection of plane figures that fills the plane with no overlaps and no gaps. One may also speak of tessellations of parts of the plane or of other surfaces. Generalizations to higher dimensions are also possible. ...
- To cover with tiles or stones, as a mosaic; Of a two-dimensional shape, such that multiple copies of itself placed edge to edge cover an area leaving no space between the shapes; To completely fill (an area) when multiple copies of one or more two-dimensional shapes are placed edge to edge
- (Tessellated) Broken up into flakes which are nearly square or rectangular in outline forming a regular pattern. This is an uncommon bark-type in rain forest.
