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tessellated

[ UK /tˈɛsɪlˌe‍ɪtɪd/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. decorated with small pieces of colored glass or stone fitted together in a mosaic
    a tessellated pavement
  2. having a checkered or mottled appearance

How To Use tessellated In A Sentence

  • Remains from Roman Canterbury have also come to light, including walls standing two feet high, metalled roads, a number of tessellated floors, and a hoard of about 700 low-denomination coins spanning the 1st - 4th centuries.
  • The area of loss high-lighted in Plate XII illustrates the intrinsic flaw in tessellated inlay decoration: particles were apt to become dislodged as the thin strip of mixed clay was bent around the oval teapot.
  • What emerges is a tessellated portrait, a composite of many pixelated hits, where if we had a chance, we'd naturally smooth those pieces into a story. Pamela Haag, Ph.D.: In a Google World, Do You Have the 'Right to Be Forgotten'?
  • In Beowulf we hear ‘The outer door, bolted with iron bands, burst open at a touch from his hands… the fiend stepped onto the tessellated floor…’
  • They went down the steps and crossed a cracked tessellated floor. THE KEYS OF HELL
  • He vaguely remembered first learning to master the tessellated squares alone in his basement, a cobwebbed series of spider nests along the ceiling, the static sheen of a computer screen backlighting their wiry, clockwise movement. Empty Windows, Empty Rooms
  • About half of the design survives, set within a red tessellated border.
  • She would hear tile swirl of water from the downstairs washroom, his footsteps on the tessellated floor of the hall.
  • He was standing in a vast hall, lined with gilded mirrors from tessellated floor to Florentine ceiling. TANK OF SERPENTS
  • These features include fine-grained modification of textures, more efficient data sharing between shader programs, and the ability to re-use shapes that the GPU has already tessellated without having to tessellate them again. Ars Technica
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