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space-filling

Adjective

Meaning

space-filling (not comparable)

(geometry) That fills a closed (typically 2-dimensional or 3-dimensional) space.

Source: en.wiktionary.org

Examples

A curve that is almost space-filling can still have topological dimension one, even if it fills up most of the area of a region. Source: Internet

An example of a fractal antenna: a space-filling curve called a Minkowski Island fractal Nathan Cohen (1995) "Fractal antennas Part 1" A good example of a fractal antenna as a spacefilling curve is in the form of a shrunken fractal helix. Source: Internet

According to the patent, the gel network contains oppositely charged nanoparticles, which impart space-filling effects. Source: Internet

A space-filling tessellation is possible with congruent copies of any parallelepiped. Source: Internet

The space-filling truss of packed octahedra and tetrahedra was apparently first discovered by Alexander Graham Bell and independently re-discovered by Buckminster Fuller (who called it the octet truss and patented it in the 1940s). Source: Internet

The peace lily, or Spathiphyllum, is a large, space-filling plant that can also clean the air. Source: Internet

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