tessellate
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prettygoodwordtessellate (TES-uh-layt) - v., to cover with tiles or stones, as a mosaic; (geometry) to completely fill (an area) with multiple copies of one or more two-dimensional shapes placed edge to edge.
An actual floor or, in a mathematical way, an abstract surface. Or sometimes both at once:
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When you tessellate, you get a tessellation. From Latin tessellātus, of small square stones, from tessella, small cube, diminutive of tessera, a square, from Ancient Greek téssares, four (which arrived in English as tetra-), from Proto-Indo-European *kʷetwóres (from which also Latin quattuor, which arrived in English as quarter, and Old English fēower, which arrived in Modern English as four).
---L.
An actual floor or, in a mathematical way, an abstract surface. Or sometimes both at once:
Thanks, WikiMedia!
When you tessellate, you get a tessellation. From Latin tessellātus, of small square stones, from tessella, small cube, diminutive of tessera, a square, from Ancient Greek téssares, four (which arrived in English as tetra-), from Proto-Indo-European *kʷetwóres (from which also Latin quattuor, which arrived in English as quarter, and Old English fēower, which arrived in Modern English as four).
---L.
