tessellation
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As the designer odyssey moves from New York to Paris, patterns are palpable—another baby bang here, another sprinkling of glitter there—until finally, everything materializes into one divine, season-defining tessellation. — Vogue, "The Best Street Style Beauty Looks From the Spring 2019 Shows," 4 Oct. 2018 The Infinity Puzzle, as it's called, uses concepts like tessellation and Klein bottles to create a puzzle with no sides or corners. — Avery Thompson, Popular Mechanics, "This Math-Inspired Jigsaw Puzzle Goes On Forever," 23 Nov. 2016 Its sky is full of gantry cranes, stacking 20-foot-long shipping containers in multicoloured tessellations, like giant Lego bricks. — The Economist, "The other handoverAn illustrious Hong Kong container firm sells to China," 15 July 2017 But organic shapes or shapes that don't repeat in a regular pattern are also valid tessellations. — Evelyn Lamb, Scientific American Blog Network, "For World Tessellation Day, Remember to Look Down," 12 June 2017These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'tessellation.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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