different between tesselate vs tessellate

English

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): [?t??s?le?t?]

Verb

tesselate (third-person singular simple present tesselates, present participle tesselating, simple past and past participle tesselated)

1. Alternative spelling of tessellate

English

Alternative forms

• tesselate (chiefly U.S.)

Etymology

From Latin tessellatus, from tessella, diminutive of tessera; from Ancient Greek ???????? (téssares), from Proto-Indo-European *k?etwóres.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?t?s?le?t/

Verb

tessellate (third-person singular simple present tessellates, present participle tessellating, simple past and past participle tessellated)

1. (transitive) To cover with tiles or stones, as a mosaic; to tile.
2. (intransitive, geometry) Of 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. (transitive, geometry) 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.

Derived terms

• tessellation

Related terms

• tessella
• tessera

Translations

See also

• tessellate on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Mosaic on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Tile on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Latin

Adjective

tessell?te

1. vocative masculine singular of tessell?tus