Tiling vs Tessellation - What's the difference?
tiling | tessellation |
A covering of tiles.
The act of applying tiles.
(uncountable) The property or fact of tessellating.
(countable) A tiling pattern with no gaps; the result of tessellating an area or plane.
(uncountable) A less common name for polygon 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
- All the tiling in the bathroom must be removed because of water damage to the wood under it.
- We spent all day doing the tiling in the bathroom.
Verb
(head)tessellation
English
Noun
- Squares can be used for tessellation.
- This is a tessellation of the plane with squares and regular octagons.
Derived terms
* polygon tessellation * regular tessellation * semiregular tessellationSee also
* *Mathworld article on tessellation