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tessellation|tɛsəˈleɪʃən|
[n. of action f. tessellate v.: see -ation.]
1. The action or art of tessellating; tessellated condition; concr. a piece of tessellated work.
1813J. Forsyth Italy 111 The work is not mosaic, for there is no tessellation. 1862Merivale Rom. Emp. VII. lxvii. 540 Like the several pieces of a variegated tessellation. a1878Sir G. G. Scott Lect. Archit. (1879) II. 253 Wide⁓spreading floors, rich with marble tesselation.
fig.1840H. Rogers Ess. (1874) II. v. 250 Numberless passages of Jeremy Taylor..are a little better than a curious tesselation of English, Greek, and Latin. 1863Le Fanu Ho. by Chyd. (ed. 2) III. 307 The writings of the Apostolic Fathers are, in a great measure, a tesselation of holy writ.
2. An arrangement or close fitting together of minute parts or distinct colours: cf. tessellated 3.
1660Sharrock Vegetables 144 Yet they, instead of those elegant Tessellations, are beautified otherwise in their site with as great curiosity. 1822–34Good's Study Med. (ed. 4) IV. 500 The whole surface of the body..having exhibited a sordid tesselation of crusts. 1905J. Orr Probl. O. Test. vii. 201 The newer criticism with its multiplication of documents..and its minute tesselation of texts. |