How to Use tessellation in a Sentence

tessellation

noun

• 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 path of the International Space Station, as mapped over a tessellation of Narukawa's world map.
  — Nathaniel Scharping, Discover Magazine, 29 Nov. 2022
• Each tessellation should plot to exactly one point within the plane.
  — Elise Cutts, Quanta Magazine, 21 June 2023
• The true impact of roads seems to be the gradual tessellation of once-cohesive landscapes.
  — Nathaniel Scharping, Discover Magazine, 19 Dec. 2016
• In the cases Wiles studied, the tiling might be something along the lines of M.C. Escher’s famous tessellations of a disk with fish or angels and devils that get smaller near the boundary.
  — Quanta Magazine, 6 Apr. 2020
• 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
• 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 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• There are some detours into more traditional figural studies, including a series of swans that can be seen as a kind of precursor to M.C. Escher’s tessellations.
  — Jeffrey Bauman, ELLE Decor, 18 Apr. 2019
• 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
• As one journey — the classification of all convex polygon tessellations — ends, another is just beginning.
  — Quanta Magazine, 11 July 2017
• 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

Last Updated: 24 Jul 2024