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  • n  the careful juxtaposition of shapes in a pattern
    a tessellation of hexagons
  • n  the act of adorning with mosaic

  • The audience had to remember, or look up, tessellation, which is a mosaic of small pieces of marble, glass or tile.
  • If they happen to turn on the channel, they see an attractively patterned, cubist tessellation of arms, torsos, scattered heads and errant thighs.
  • The back, a tessellation of white speckles on a canvas of black, will turn gray-brown.
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  • Molecules form 2-D patterns never before observed: Nanoscience experiments produce elusive 5-vertex tilings
    Tessellation patterns that have fascinated mathematicians since Kepler worked out their systematics 400 years ago -- and that more recently have caught the eye of artists and crystallographers -- can now be seen in the laboratory. They first took shape on a surface more perfectly two-dimensional than any sheet of paper, a single layer of atoms and molecules atop an atomically smooth substrate ...
    Aug. 8, 2013 - Science Daily
  • Molecules form 2-D patterns never before observed
    ( Technische Universitaet Muenchen ) Tessellation patterns that have fascinated mathematicians since Kepler worked out their systematics 400 years ago -- and that more recently have caught the eye of artists and crystallographers -- can now be seen in the laboratory. They first took shape on a surface more perfectly two-dimensional than any sheet of paper, a single layer of atoms and molecules ...
    Aug. 8, 2013 - EurekAlert!

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