Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The act or art of making inlaid work with tesseræ.
  • noun The work so produced.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun The act of tessellating; also, the mosaic work so formed.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun uncountable The property or fact of tessellating.
  • noun countable A tiling pattern with no gaps; the result of tessellating an area or plane.
  • noun uncountable A less common name for polygon tessellation.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun the careful juxtaposition of shapes in a pattern
  • noun the act of adorning with mosaic

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