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Tesserae

A small square piece of stone, wood, ivory or glass used for making a mosaic.

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noun

1
A small square piece of stone, wood, ivory or glass used for making a mosaic.
2
Complex-ridged surface feature seen on plateau highlands of Venus and perhaps on Triton

💡 Words with a Similar Meaning to "Tesserae"

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tesseralnoun	Of, pertaining to, or made up of tesserae.
tessiernoun	A surname from French.
taeniaenoun	(anatomy) Any of several ribbon-like bands of tissue.
tessinnoun	(dated) Ticino
tesseractnoun	(mathematics, geometry) The four-dimensional analogue of a cube; a 4D polytope bounded by eight cubes (analogously to the way a cube is bounded by six squares).
caesuraenoun	A pause or interruption in a poem, music, building, or other work of art.
terraenoun	(literary) Earth, soil, land, or ground as a physical surface.
denariinoun	(Ancient Rome, numismatics) A small silver coin issued both during the Roman Republic and during the Roman Empire, equal to 10 asses or 4 sesterces. Roughly one day’s wage for a skilled worker.
tessellated	Covered with tiles (pieces that are similarly shaped)
tabulaenoun	—
trapeziinoun	triangular muscles of the back
fibulaenoun	(anatomy) The smaller of the two bones in the lower leg.
chaetaenoun	A chitinous bristle of an annelid worm.
plicaenoun	A fold or crease, especially of skin or other tissue.
tabulae rasae	(philosophy, epistemology) A mind, as of a newborn, free of any impressions, notions, ideas, etc.; a blank slate.
tectonanoun	a genus of tropical hardwood trees in the mint family, Lamiaceae.
tessellationnoun	(countable) A tiling pattern with no gaps; the result of tessellating an area or plane.
tilesnoun	an American progressive rock band from Detroit, Michigan, United States.
tephritenoun	(geology) An igneous rock consisting essentially of plagioclase and either leucite or nephelite, or both.
tessellatenoun	(intransitive, geometry) to cover a two-dimensional shape, such that multiple copies of itself placed edge to edge cover an area leaving no space between the shapes.