tessellation
Example Sentences
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It was a microcosm for the tessellation Queeman saw in late '90s Harlem even if it wasn't painted with such nuance in national media at the time.
From Salon
This tells us that the tessellation must be aperiodic.
From Scientific American
The tiles in the Alhambra, which Escher described studying, for instance, transform into some of his well-known tessellations.
From Los Angeles Times
But logic also overlooks the weird, intangible voodoo of what Klopp already has, the way those combinations seem to have evolved out of some perfect tessellation of strengths.
From The Guardian
Behind us not far was the view of Toledo, a low hump and a comparatively unaspiring tessellation of rooftops, seen from where El Greco did not see it that way.
From The New Yorker
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