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How to pronounce tessellation in English?

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Type Words
Type of decoration
Derivation tessellate
Type Words
Type of apposition, collocation, juxtaposition


a tessellation of hexagons.

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A tessellation is a collection of figures filling a plane with no gaps or overlaps.
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Hardware tessellation and Shader Model 5.0 require Direct3D 11 supporting hardware.
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Floors and walkways use contrasting tiles or blocks in tessellation patterns.
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A monohedral tiling is a tessellation in which all tiles are congruent.
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The concrete waffle slab floor plates are adorned with triangular-patterned tessellation.
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It includes the study of shapes such as the Platonic solids and the notion of tessellation.
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A regular tessellation is a highly symmetric tessellation made up of congruentregular polygons.
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The Voronoi diagram of a regular triangular lattice is the honeycomb tessellation of hexagons.
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This design is known as the tessellation model, and is called a von Neumann universal constructor.
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More examples
  • The careful juxtaposition of shapes in a pattern; "a tessellation of hexagons"
  • The act of adorning with mosaic
  • (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"
  • 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. ...
  • Tessellations are complex repeated designs that interconnect to create striking patterns when used as a quilt top pattern.
  • (tessellated) occurring in small thick flakes or small squares [image]
  • (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.
  • (Tessellated) Forming little geometric shapes, such as squares, triangles, etc.