20 August 2016
tessellate
[verb tes-uh-leyt; adjective tes-uh-lit, -leyt]
verb (used with object), tessellated, tessellating.
1. to form of small squares or blocks, as floors or pavements; form or arrange in a checkered or mosaic pattern.
adjective
2. tessellated.
Origin of tessellate
Latin
1785-1795; < Latin tessellātus mosaic, equivalent to tessell (a) small square stone (diminutive of tessera tessera ) + -ātus -ate1
tessellation or tesselation
[tes-uh-ley-shuh n]
noun
1. the art or practice of tessellating.
2. tessellated form or arrangement.
3. tessellated work.
Origin of tessellation
1650-1660; tessellate (v. ) + -ion
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Example sentences
We’re all part of this infinite tessellation, each a single cell in the honeycomb.
– Touch, TV Series, season 1 episode 10.
Symmetry is the language of the universe.
It is written in mathematical language, and the letters are triangles, circles, and other geometrical figures, without which it is humanly impossible to comprehend a single word. But some of us can speak it. We see the precise patterns, the tessellations.
– Touch, TV Series, season 1 episode 10.
Anagram
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Today’s quote
The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is.
– Winston Churchill
On this day
20 August 1866 – American Civil War formally ends.
20 August 1940 – British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, states ‘never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few‘, in relation to the Royal Air Force who was repelling German attacks on the United Kingdom in the Battle of Britain.
20 August 1948 – birth of Robert Plant, British rock singer, musician and songwriter. During the 1960’s, Plant sang with a number of bands, including The Crawling King Snakes, Listen, Band of Joy and Hobbstweedle. In 1968, Jimmy Page of successful blues band, The Yardbirds (which had previously featured Eric Clapton and Jeff Beck), convinced Plant to front his new band, The New Yardbirds. Page and Plant began writing songs for the new band, as well as playing some of the Yardbirds classics, such as Dazed and Confused, and For Your Love. Towards the end of 1968, the band was renamed Led Zeppelin. Musicologist Robert Walser stated, ‘Led Zeppelin’s sound was marked by speed and power, unusual rhythmic patterns, contrasting terraced dynamics, singer Robert Plant’s wailing vocals, and guitarist Jimmy Page’s heavily distorted crunch‘. Led Zeppelin has been widely regarded as the forerunner of Heavy Metal.
20 August 1966 – birth of Dimebag Darrell, (born Darrell Lance Abbott), American musician, founding member of Pantera. Dimebag was shot dead on stage on 8 December 2004 while playing for Damageplan.
20 August 1968 – the USSR and a number of other Warsaw Pact nations, invade Czechoslovakia to halt the ‘Prague Spring’ liberalisation reforms being implemented by the Czech leader, Alexander Dubček. This invasion caused a significant rift in support by Communists across the globe and condemnation by many non-Communist nations, leading to a weakening of communism in general and the Soviet Union in particular.