tessellated
- v fit together exactly, of identical shapes
- v tile with tesserae
- s having a checkered or mottled appearance
- s decorated with small pieces of colored glass or stone fitted together in a mosaic
a tessellated pavement
- In Boston, Historian Hugh Thomas (Lord Thomas of Swynnerton) said the world now is a "tessellated pavement without cement.
- One day last week Hugh Dalton strode confidently across the tessellated inner lobby of the House of Commons; he knew that he held Britain's spotlight.
- The small world that the astronauts showed us from space is also, down here, a psychotically tessellated overload of images.