tessellation
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3ADJ.
staggering, used
VERB + TESSELLATION
form
TESSELLATION + NOUN
plane
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noun
The property or fact of tessellating.
Squares can be used for tessellation.
A tiling pattern with no gaps; the result of tessellating an area or plane.
This is a tessellation of the plane with squares and regular octagons.
Decorative arches intersect the graceful latticework of the expansive ridge and furrow trainshed rooves, woven together by a staggering tessellation of 48,000 glass panels.
polygon tessellation.
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4Squares can be used for tessellation.
WiktionaryThis is a tessellation of the plane with squares and regular octagons.
WiktionaryDecorative arches intersect the graceful latticework of the expansive ridge and furrow trainshed rooves, woven together by a staggering tessellation of 48,000 glass panels.
WiktionaryThe equilateral triangle, the square and the regular hexagon are the only regular polygons that can form a tessellation of the plane.
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