tessellate
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1. tessellate - Adjective
2. tessellate - Verb
Meaning
To form into squares or checkers; to lay with checkered work.
Tessellated.
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tessellate the kitchen floor
triangles tessellate
Tessellation of the plane Tessellation by two sizes of Koch snowflake It is possible to tessellate the plane by copies of Koch snowflakes in two different sizes.
Hexagons of symmetry g2, i4, and r12, as parallelogons can tessellate the Euclidean plane by translation.
Klein showed that the modular group moves the fundamental region of the complex plane so as to tessellate that plane.