Usually means: Arrange shapes closely without gaps.
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General (21 matching dictionaries)
  1. tessellate: Merriam-Webster
  2. tessellate: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. tessellate: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. tessellate: Collins English Dictionary
  5. tessellate: Vocabulary.com
  6. tessellate: Wordnik
  7. tessellate: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. tessellate: Wiktionary
  9. tessellate: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. tessellate: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. tessellate: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. tessellate: Dictionary.com
  13. Tessellate (song), Tessellate: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. Tessellate: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. tessellate: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. tessellate: Rhymezone
  17. Tessellate: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. tessellate: FreeDictionary.org
  19. tessellate: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  20. tessellate: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. tessellate: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. tessellate: mosaic glossary

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  1. tessellate: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
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  2. tessellate: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. tessellate: A Word A Day

Science (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Botanical Terms (No longer online)
  2. Flora of New South Wales (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. tessellate: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See tessellated as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (tessellate)

adjective:  tessellated
verb:  (transitive) To cover with tiles or stones, as a mosaic; to tile.
verb:  (intransitive, geometry) 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.
verb:  (transitive, geometry) To completely fill (an area) when multiple copies of one or more two-dimensional shapes are placed edge to edge.

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