Meaning & use
tessellated
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Made up of small, repeating tiles or shapes fitted together to form a pattern, often without gaps or overlaps.
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The floor was covered in a beautiful tessellated mosaic of blue and white tiles.
The lizard's skin had a tessellated pattern of small scales.
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From Latin 'tessella,' a small cube used in mosaics; the mathematical study of such patterns is called tessellation.
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