tessellation

noun

1. (uncountable)The property or fact of tessellating.

   “Squares can be used for tessellation.”

2. (countable)A tiling pattern with no gaps; the result of tessellating an area or plane.

   “This is a tessellation of the plane with squares and regular octagons.”

   “Decorative arches intersect the graceful latticework of the expansive ridge and furrow trainshed rooves, woven together by a staggering tessellation of 48,000 glass panels.”

3. (countable, uncommon, uncountable)polygon tessellation.