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tessellated


  3  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Tessellated  \Tes"sel*la`ted\,  a. 
  1.  Formed  of  little  squares,  as  mosaic  work  checkered;  as  a 
  tessellated  pavement. 
 
  2.  (Bot.  &  Zo["o]l.)  Marked  like  a  checkerboard;  as  a 
  tessellated  leaf. 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Tessellate  \Tes"sel*late\,  v.  t.  [imp.  &  p.  p.  {Tessellated};  p. 
  pr  &  vb  n.  {Tessellating}.]  [L.  tessellatus  tessellated. 
  See  {Tessellar}.] 
  To  form  into  squares  or  checkers;  to  lay  with  checkered  work 
 
  The  floors  are  sometimes  of  wood,  tessellated  after  the 
  fashion  of  France.  --Macaulay. 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  tessellated 
  adj  1:  having  a  checkered  or  mottled  appearance 
  2:  decorated  with  small  pieces  of  colored  glass  or  stone  fitted 
  together;  "a  mosaic  floor";  "a  tessellated  pavement"  [syn: 
  {mosaic}] 




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