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▪ I. tessellate, a. (n.)|ˈtɛsələt|
Also -elate.
[ad. late L. tessellāt-us: see next.]
= tessellated.
1826Kirby & Sp. Entomol. IV. xlvi. 289 Tessellate,..painted in checquer-work. 1872Longfellow Wayside Inn iii. Azrael 2 King Solomon..on the pavement tesselate Was walking. 1876J. Ellis Caesar in Egypt 30 Along the floor, Chromatic, tesselate with marbles rare.
B. n. in variegated tessellate, an American butterfly, Hesperia montivagus, found in Florida, Mexico, and the Rocky Mountains.
1909in Cent. Dict., Suppl.
▪ II. tessellate, v.|ˈtɛsəleɪt|
Also 8–9 tesselate.
[f. ppl. stem of late or med.L. tessellāre (pa. pple. tessellāt-us: cf. also It. tessellare in Florio), f. L. tessella tessella. The pa. pple. tessellated occurs earlier than the finite vb.: see next.]
1. trans. To make into a mosaic; to form a mosaic upon, adorn with mosaics; to construct (esp. a pavement) by combining variously coloured blocks so as to form a pattern.
1791E. Darwin Bot. Gard. i. 95 And dull Galena tessellates the floor. 1826P. Pounden France & It. 27 The floor is tesselated with great elegance. 1862Rawlinson Anc. Mon. I. v. 125 Pieces of marble used for tesselating.
b. transf. and fig.
1817Coleridge Satyrane's Lett. iii. in Biog. Lit., etc. (1882) 264 The wood-work..in old houses among us..being painted red and green, it cuts and tesselates the buildings very gaily. 1858E. FitzGerald Lett. (1889) I. 269 It is most ingeniously tesselated into a sort of Epicurean Eclogue in a Persian Garden. 1869Lecky Europ. Mor. I. ii. 335 The affectation of some to tesselate their conversation with antiquated and obsolete words.
2. To combine so as to form a mosaic; to fit into its place in a mosaic. In quots. fig.
1838–9[implied in tessellated 2]. 1861J. Pycroft Ways & Words 17 The sentences [of Sir J. Mackintosh] are rather tessellated than constructed; each word fitting admirably into its own place, but defying all transposition. 1879Farrar St. Paul II. 189 Many writers have maintained that this meaning is vague and general,..impossible to tesselate into any formal scheme of salvation.
For ‘8–9 tesselate’ read ‘8– tesselate’ and add: 3. Math. Of plane figures of a single shape: to fill (a specified region) completely, without leaving gaps, in a manner analogous to the covering of a surface by tiles. Also, to divide (a region) into such figures; also absol. Occas. used with reference to equivalent processes in more than two dimensions.
1966Amer. Math. Monthly LXXIII. 903 Now tesselate the plane by 3, 4, 5 right triangles. 1971Mathematical Gaz. LV. 366 Every quadrilateral will tessellate because the 4 angles can be grouped round a point. 1981Mathematical Rev. LXXXI. 2502/1 A prime of a Y-pentomino is defined to be a rectangle that can be tessellated into Y-pentominoes but that is not a union of smaller rectangles with that property. 1985SIAM Jrnl. Numerical Anal. XXII. 96 We shall be ultimately concerned with polyhedral regions in Rn that have been tessellated into n-dimensional simplices. |