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Definition of Tesselating
1. tesselate [v] - See also: tesselate
Lexicographical Neighbors of Tesselating
Literary usage of Tesselating
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Collected Papers in Physics and Engineering by James Thomson (1912)
"In the spreading of a system of tesselating cracks over a surface of shrinking
mud, or over the glaze of porcelain—which, probably by penetration of ..."
2. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable: Giving the Derivation, Source, Or Origin of by Ebenezer Cobham Brewer (1898)
"... а Ы-sulphuret of tin used by the ancients in tesselating. (French, mosaïque.)
Gold Parse of Spain. Andalusia is so called because it is the city from ..."
3. The Knickerbocker: Or, New-York Monthly Magazine by Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew (1851)
"... and out rolled into the bright waters a complete rain of gold and silver coin,
which lay among the smooth stones, tesselating the bottom, as it were, ..."
4. The Knickerbocker: Or, New-York Monthly Magazineby Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew by Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew (1851)
"... tesselating the bottom, as it were, with a brilliant pavement of glittering
metal and many -colored pebbles, the transparency of the water causing all ..."
5. The Knickerbocker. by Charles Fenno Hoffman, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew, Timothy Flint, Washington Irving (1851)
"... and out rolled into the bright waters a complete rain of gold and silver coin,
which lay among the smooth stones, tesselating the bottom, as it were, ..."
6. The Knickerbocker. by Charles Fenno Hoffman, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew, Timothy Flint, Washington Irving (1853)
"Lying on my horseman's sur-coat, just before the chapel-door, Numbering the
star-mosaics tesselating heaven's floor, Mused I on their gaze, which witnessed ..."
7. Mars and Its Canals by Percival Lowell (1906)
"The streaks traversed them in all directions, tesselating the continents into a
tilework of islands. Such mosaic was not only new, but the fashion of the ..."
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