How to Use tessellation in a Sentence

tessellation

noun
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  • 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

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