1. to cover a surface with shapes that fit together perfectly without gaps or overlaps
Usage: often used in mathematics and art

Examples

• The artist decided to tessellate the floor with hexagonal tiles.
• Honeybees tessellate their combs with perfect hexagons.
• The bathroom wall was tessellated with small square tiles.
• Regular triangles can tessellate a plane completely.
• The designer chose to tessellate the pattern across the entire surface.
• Ancient Romans knew how to tessellate floors with intricate geometric designs.