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  • noun Plural form of tessellation.

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Examples

  • Minutely tiled in blue and green, with mirrored tessellations that make it sparkle in the night, the shrine contains the body of the sister of one of the 12 revered imams of Shiite Islam.

    Among the Mullahs 2010

  • Minutely tiled in blue and green, with mirrored tessellations that make it sparkle in the night, the shrine contains the body of the sister of one of the 12 revered imams of Shiite Islam.

    Among the Mullahs 2010

  • One may also speak of tessellations of the parts of the plane or of other surfaces.

    In Which the Princess Learns Something New princessalethea 2010

  • For termagent - whose brief was to try something to do with fussy cutting or tessellations.

    Sluggish girliejones 2010

  • When I was teaching elementary school, we'd spend a few weeks on tessellations and Fibonacci.

    Fibonacci Patterns James Gurney 2010

  • For termagent - whose brief was to try something to do with fussy cutting or tessellations.

    March Quilting Block girliejones 2010

  • Bill Kerr: tessellations found in the Wayback machine skip to main

    tessellations found in the Wayback machine Bill Kerr 2008

  • Here are some tessellations my students did from way back:

    Archive 2008-04-01 Bill Kerr 2008

  • Here are some tessellations my students did from way back:

    tessellations found in the Wayback machine Bill Kerr 2008

  • Off hand, I was thinking about Escher and Penrose in relation to the tessellations, and thought how important this relationship?

    Pretty pictures daniel 2007

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