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Definition of Tessellating
1. tessellate [v] - See also: tessellate
Lexicographical Neighbors of Tessellating
Literary usage of Tessellating
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Contributions to the Tertiary Fauna of Florida: With Special Reference to by William Healey Dall (1890)
"4, 4 a), has between the peripheral keel and the suture above four nearly
equidistant incised lines, obliquely tessellating the surface when they cut the ..."
2. Popular Science Monthly (1902)
"The streaks traversed them in all directions, tessellating the continents into
a tilework of islands. Such mosaic was not only new, but the fashion ..."
3. The Writings of Charles Dickens by Charles Dickens, Gilbert Ashville Pierce (1894)
"... an old Babylonic pavement, bright rays tessellating the black ground,- sometimes
in pieces so large that I could make out the clothes in the "Trovatore. ..."
4. A Survey of English Literature 1780-1880 by Oliver Elton (1920)
"He is removed from all of these, if only by his inveterate tessellating habit.
The tones of Ruskin are traceable now and then in his earlier pages, ..."
5. Atlas of the World with Geophysical Boundaries Showing Oceans, Continents by Athelstan Spilhaus (1991)
"... "Puzzle of the Plates," tessellating jigsaw map of the world with tectonic
plate margins as natural boundaries. ..."
6. Catalogue of the Collection of Mazatlan Shells in the British Museum by Philip Pearsall Carpenter (1857)
"... generally with white lines either radiating or broken up; often with white
patches tessellating with the brown; or changing from one pattern to another. ..."
7. Catalogue of the Collection of Mazatlan Shells in the British Museum by Philip Pearsall Carpenter (1857)
"... generally with white lines either radiating or broken up; often with white
patches tessellating with the brown; or changing from one pattern to another. ..."
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