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Tiling vs Tessellation - What's the difference?

tiling | tessellation |

As nouns the difference between tiling and tessellation

is that tiling is a covering of tiles while tessellation is the property or fact of tessellating.

As a verb tiling

is present participle of lang=en.

tiling

English

Noun

  • A covering of tiles.
  • All the tiling in the bathroom must be removed because of water damage to the wood under it.
  • The act of applying tiles.
  • We spent all day doing the tiling in the bathroom.

    Verb

    (head)
  • tessellation

    English

    Noun

  • (uncountable) The property or fact of tessellating.
  • Squares can be used for tessellation.
  • (countable) A tiling pattern with no gaps; the result of tessellating an area or plane.
  • This is a tessellation of the plane with squares and regular octagons.
  • (uncountable) A less common name for polygon tessellation.
  • Derived terms

    * polygon tessellation * regular tessellation * semiregular tessellation

    See also

    * * Mathworld article on tessellation