tessellate
verb
tes·sel·late
ˈte-sə-ˌlāt 
tessellated; tessellating
: to form into or adorn with mosaic
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The gallery is part of the fun, too, decked out in a riotous, tessellating wallpaper of musical homages and studded with golden geometric structures.
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Tessa Solomon, ARTnews.com, 22 Oct. 2024
That work’s reflective walls cause the piece’s five screens to tessellate across the space, confusing the eye.
—Alex Greenberger, ARTnews.com, 12 July 2024
The palatial decor feels of a place, including the black-and-white, checkerboard tiling that tessellates throughout the property, which also has a lovely spa with water views.
—Paul Brady, Travel + Leisure, 9 July 2024
There is not so much a split screen as a tessellating one.
—Amy Davidson Sorkin, The New Yorker, 14 Apr. 2024
Tonight, Wong is wearing the closing look from Iris van Herpen’s fall 2023 couture show: a black-and-white gabardine and satin column dress covered in tessellating florals that crawl up a tulle illusion mock neck.
—Hannah Jackson, Vogue, 24 Feb. 2024
Gardner reported that the classification of all tessellating convex polygons had been completed by a 1968 proof that claimed to have found the remaining convex pentagons that tile the plane.
—Quanta Magazine, 11 July 2017
Streaks of rose gold exactly match my Aperol spritz, and sunset tessellates a path all the way to shore.
—Frances Mayes, National Geographic, 11 July 2019
Black walls and thick charcoal carpet were brightened by tessellating series of slim white stripes, while the door and closet popped in bright chartreuse.
—Debra Kamin, New York Times, 21 Jan. 2018
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Tessa Solomon, ARTnews.com, 22 Oct. 2024
That work’s reflective walls cause the piece’s five screens to tessellate across the space, confusing the eye.
—Alex Greenberger, ARTnews.com, 12 July 2024
The palatial decor feels of a place, including the black-and-white, checkerboard tiling that tessellates throughout the property, which also has a lovely spa with water views.
—Paul Brady, Travel + Leisure, 9 July 2024
There is not so much a split screen as a tessellating one.
—Amy Davidson Sorkin, The New Yorker, 14 Apr. 2024
Tonight, Wong is wearing the closing look from Iris van Herpen’s fall 2023 couture show: a black-and-white gabardine and satin column dress covered in tessellating florals that crawl up a tulle illusion mock neck.
—Hannah Jackson, Vogue, 24 Feb. 2024
Gardner reported that the classification of all tessellating convex polygons had been completed by a 1968 proof that claimed to have found the remaining convex pentagons that tile the plane.
—Quanta Magazine, 11 July 2017
Streaks of rose gold exactly match my Aperol spritz, and sunset tessellates a path all the way to shore.
—Frances Mayes, National Geographic, 11 July 2019
Black walls and thick charcoal carpet were brightened by tessellating series of slim white stripes, while the door and closet popped in bright chartreuse.
—Debra Kamin, New York Times, 21 Jan. 2018
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“Tessellate.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/tessellate. Accessed 22 Dec. 2024.
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