How to Use tessellation in a Sentence

tessellation

noun
  • So from the front, there’s a tessellation that goes around the frame.
    — Elizabeth Myong, Dallas News, 6 Sep. 2023
  • Each tessellation should plot to exactly one point within the plane.
    — Elise Cutts, Quanta Magazine, 21 June 2023
  • The squinting eyes, the jut of the chin, the precise tessellation of the lower lip and upper lip stay the same.
    — Wired, 24 Sep. 2019
  • The true impact of roads seems to be the gradual tessellation of once-cohesive landscapes.
    — Nathaniel Scharping, Discover Magazine, 19 Dec. 2016
  • But organic shapes or shapes that don't repeat in a regular pattern are also valid tessellations.
    — Evelyn Lamb, Scientific American Blog Network, 12 June 2017
  • Another new direction is a wide ring that draws from the tessellation of repeating cells seen in honeycombs.
    — Lily Templeton, Footwear News, 3 Sep. 2019
  • Keller’s conjecture, a tessellation problem about the way certain shapes tile in certain spaces, has been solved for all but seven-dimensional space.
    — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 31 Aug. 2020
  • Those molecules then connect to each other via hydrogen bonds, creating a tessellation of polygons.
    — Elise Cutts, Quanta Magazine, 21 June 2023
  • Its sky is full of gantry cranes, stacking 20-foot-long shipping containers in multicoloured tessellations, like giant Lego bricks.
    — The Economist, 15 July 2017
  • The path of the International Space Station, as mapped over a tessellation of Narukawa's world map.
    — Nathaniel Scharping, Discover Magazine, 29 Nov. 2022
  • As one journey — the classification of all convex polygon tessellations — ends, another is just beginning.
    — Quanta Magazine, 11 July 2017
  • The pattern of creases forms a tessellation of parallelograms, and the whole structure collapses and unfolds in a single motion — providing an elegant way to fold a map.
    — Quanta Magazine, 31 Oct. 2017
  • The Infinity Puzzle, as it's called, uses concepts like tessellation and Klein bottles to create a puzzle with no sides or corners.
    — Avery Thompson, Popular Mechanics, 23 Nov. 2016
  • Good Sets In his proof, Rao first showed that there are only a finite number of scenarios for how the corners of convex pentagons can fit together that need to be checked for tessellations.
    — Quanta Magazine, 11 July 2017
  • The researchers focused on true tessellations, in which geometric tiles are discrete structural pieces separated by softer seams, rather than purely visual or hollow patterns such as animal coloration or honeycombs.
    — Anirban Mukhopadhyay, Scientific American, 5 Jan. 2026
  • The concept of aperiodic geometry has existed for at least 1,000 years from Islamic mosaics and tessellations to ancient marquetry designs and silk weavings.
    — Adrienne Bernhard, Popular Mechanics, 15 June 2023
  • However, it was limited to DirectX9 support, lacked the ability to handle tessellation, only worked on a handful of motherboards, and to say getting drivers working was difficult would be an understatement.
    — Jon Martindale, PC Magazine, 21 May 2026
  • As the designer odyssey moves from New York to Paris, patterns are palpable—another baby bang here, another sprinkling of glitter there—until finally, everything materializes into one divine, season-defining tessellation.
    — Vogue, 4 Oct. 2018
  • Doris Schattschneider, a retired mathematician affiliated with Moravian University with expertise in tessellations, had been skeptical about the likelihood of a true einstein ever being discovered.
    — Manon Bischoff, Scientific American, 22 June 2023

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