Usually means: Tiles arranged in mosaic patterns.
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We found 33 dictionaries that define the word tessera:

General (19 matching dictionaries)
  1. tessera, tessera-: Merriam-Webster
  2. tessera: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. tessera: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. tessera: Collins English Dictionary
  5. tessera: Vocabulary.com
  6. Tessera, tessera: Wordnik
  7. tessera: Wiktionary
  8. tessera: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. tessera: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. tessera: Dictionary.com
  11. Tessera (Venus), Tessera (Venusian geography), Tessera (commerce), Tessera (disambiguation), Tessera: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. Tessera: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  13. tessera: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  14. tessera: Rhymezone
  15. Tessera: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  16. tessera: FreeDictionary.org
  17. tessera: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  18. tessera: Mnemonic Dictionary
  19. tessera: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. tessera: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology
  2. tessera: mosaic glossary
  3. tessera (plural tesserae): Glossary of Medieval Art and Architecture
  4. tessera-: A Cross Reference of Latin and Greek Elements

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)
  2. tessera: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. tessera: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. tessera: Medical dictionary

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

Science (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Archaeology Wordsmith (No longer online)
  2. tessera: Nine Planets Glossary

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. tessera (plural tesserae): Glossary of Medieval Architecture
  2. Urban Conservation Glossary (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (tessera)

noun:  A small square piece of stone, wood, ivory or glass used for making a mosaic.
noun:  (planetology) complex-ridged surface feature seen on plateau highlands of Venus and perhaps on Triton
noun:  (rare) An ancient Roman die.

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