Usually means: Arranging shapes without gaps, overlaps.
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  1. tessellating: Merriam-Webster
  2. tessellating: Collins English Dictionary
  3. tessellating: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  4. tessellating: Wiktionary
  5. tessellating: Dictionary.com
  6. Tessellating: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  7. Tessellating: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  8. Tessellating: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  9. tessellating: FreeDictionary.org
  10. tessellating: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. tessellating: Encyclopedia

(Note: See tessellate 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.
▸ Also see tessellate


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