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Definition of Tessera
1. Noun. A small square tile of stone or glass used in making mosaics.
Specialized synonyms: Tessella
Generic synonyms: Tile
Derivative terms: Tessellate
Definition of Tessera
1. n. A small piece of marble, glass, earthenware, or the like, having a square, or nearly square, face, used by the ancients for mosaic, as for making pavements, for ornamenting walls, and like purposes; also, a similar piece of ivory, bone, wood, etc., used as a ticket of admission to theaters, or as a certificate for successful gladiators, and as a token for various other purposes.
Definition of Tessera
1. Noun. A small square piece of stone, wood, ivory or glass used for making a mosaic. ¹
2. Noun. (planetology) complex-ridged surface feature seen on plateau highlands of Venus and perhaps on Triton ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Tessera
1. a small square used in mosaic work [n -SERAE]
Medical Definition of Tessera
1. Origin: L, a square piece, a die. See Tessellar. A small piece of marble, glass, earthenware, or the like, having a square, or nearly square, face, used by the ancients for mosaic, as for making pavements, for ornamenting walls, and like purposes; also, a similar piece of ivory, bone, wood, etc, used as a ticket of admission to theaters, or as a certificate for successful gladiators, and as a token for various other purposes. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Tessera
Literary usage of Tessera
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Journal of the Society of Arts by Society of Arts (Great Britain) (1871)
"These compressed tessera? are then removed to the oven where, by virtue of the
... When the tessera? are fired, they become similar to these I have here. ..."
2. The Freemasons' Monthly Magazine by Charles Whitlock Moore (1855)
"Then there was the tessera hospitalis, which was a piece of wood cut into two
... To break their tessera was considered as a dissolution of friendship. ..."
3. Vestiges of Pre-metric Weights and Measures Persisting in Metric-system by Arthur Edwin Kennelly (1881)
"They are all called tessera! harmonics except the last pair, which becomes zero
at n meridian circles only, which divide the spherical surface into "in ..."
4. Antique Gems and Rings by Charles William King (1872)
"... SEALS IN TERRA-COTTA—tessera. IMPRESSIONS of intagli in disks of burnt clay
a little exceeding the dimensions of the gems are frequently ..."
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