1. fitting together closely without gaps or overlaps to cover a surface
Usage: mathematics; geometry

1. describing shapes or patterns that fit together without gaps or overlaps
Usage: mathematics; geometry

Examples

• The artist spent hours tessellating hexagonal tiles across the bathroom floor.
• Honeybees create tessellating hexagonal cells in their hives.
• The tessellating pattern of squares covered the entire wall.
• Students learned about tessellating shapes in geometry class.
• The designer used tessellating triangles to create an optical illusion.
• Tessellating polygons must have interior angles that sum to 360 degrees at each vertex.