tessellate
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tessellate
- /ˈtɛsəleɪt/
Where it comes from
Learned borrowing from Latin tessellātus, from tessella, diminutive of tessera; from Ancient Greek τέσσαρες (téssares), from Proto-Indo-European *kʷetwóres.
adjective tesselate
- tessellated
verb tessellates · tessellating · tessellated · tesselate
- To cover with tiles or stones, as a mosaic; to tile.
- 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.
- 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.
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verb to completely fill with multiple copies of a two-dimensional shape edge to edge
| Deutsch | tessellieren, parkettieren |
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Talk about this word "tessellate." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/tessellate. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026. tessellate. (n.d.). In Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Retrieved November 6, 2026, from https://micwyn.com/word/tessellate "tessellate." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/tessellate.Cite this
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title = {tessellate},
howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
year = {2026},
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urldate = {2026-11-06}
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