tessellate
verbEtymology Learned borrowing from Latin tessellātus, from tessella, diminutive of tessera; from Ancient Greek τέσσαρες (téssares), from Proto-Indo-European *kʷetwóres.
1
To cover with tiles or stones, as a mosaic; to tile.
2
Geometry, Mathematics, Sciences to cover a two-dimensional shape, such that multiple copies of itself placed edge to edge cover an area leaving no space between the shapes.
- Regular hexagons tessellate.
3
Geometry, Mathematics, Sciences To completely fill (an area) when multiple copies of one or more two-dimensional shapes are placed edge to edge.
- It is possible to tessellate the plane with equilateral triangles and regular hexagons.
- Derived terms
- tessellation