tessellate

adjective

  1. 1

    tessellated

verb

  1. 1

    To cover with tiles or stones, as a mosaic; to tile.

  2. 2

    to cover a two-dimensional shape, such that multiple copies of itself placed edge to edge cover an area leaving no space between the shapes.

    Regular hexagons tessellate.

  3. 3

    To completely fill (an area) when multiple copies of one or more two-dimensional shapes are placed edge to edge.

    It is possible to tessellate the plane with equilateral triangles and regular hexagons.

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