noun
- arrangements of shapes that fit together perfectly without gaps or overlaps to cover a surface
Usage: mathematics; art
Examples
- The artist created beautiful tessellations using hexagonal tiles.
- Honeybees naturally create tessellations in their hives.
- Students studied tessellations in their geometry class.
- The bathroom floor featured intricate tessellations of square and octagonal tiles.
- M.C. Escher was famous for his complex tessellations with interlocking birds and fish.
- Regular tessellations use only one type of polygon repeated across the surface.