tessellate

Meaning

Verb

• To cover with tiles or stones, as a mosaic; to tile.
• Of a two-dimensional shape, such that multiple copies of itself placed edge to edge cover an area leaving no space between the shapes.
• To completely fill (an area) when multiple copies of one or more two-dimensional shapes are placed edge to edge.

Origin

• From Latin tessellatus, from tessella, diminutive of tessera; from Ancient Greek τέσσαρες, from Proto-Indo-European *kʷetwóres.