Tessellated

Definitions: Tessellated

Tessellated

Adjective

1. Having a checkered or mottled appearance.

2. Decorated with small pieces of colored glass or stone fitted together; "a mosaic floor"; "a tessellated pavement".

Date "tessellated" was first used: 1695. (references)

Specialty Definitions: Tessellated

Domain	Definitions
Mining	A. A surface divided into squares, or figures approaching squares, by joints or natural divisions b. Composed of tesserae--small cubes of stone, marble, glass, or terra cotta variously colored and arranged in artistic design: inlaid; mosaic;as tessellated pavement. (references)
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Synonym: Tessellated

Synonym: mosaic (adj). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Tessellated

English words defined with "tessellated": Abaciscus ♦ Chiastolite ♦ Glyptodon ♦ Macle, Mosaic ♦ Tessellata, Tesseraic. (references)

Etymologies containing "tessellated": Tesseraic. (references)

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Commercial Usage: Tessellated

Domain	Title
Books	Birds in mosaics : a study on the representation of birds in Hellenistic and Romano-Campanian tessellated mosaics to the early Augustan age (reference) Mosaic and Tessellated Patterns: How to Create Them: With 32 Plates to Color (reference) (more book examples)
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Image Slideshow: Tessellated

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Photo Album: Tessellated

Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	An Orange Tessellated Blenny.Credit: Sanctuaries.
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Usage Frequency: Tessellated

"Tessellated" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 86.36% of the time. "Tessellated" is used about 22 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)	86.36%	19	80,337
Lexical Verb (past participle)	13.64%	3	202,518
Total	100.00%	22	N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expressions: Tessellated

Expressions using "tessellated": mosaic tessellated ♦ tessellated element. Additional references.
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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Tessellated

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Expression	Frequency per Day
tessellated totally	4
pavement tessellated	2
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Modern Translations: Tessellated

Language		Translations for "tessellated"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		me mozaik. (various references)

Arabic		‏فسيفسائي. (various references)

Czech		mozaikový. (various references)

Danish		skåret ud i grov mosaik, mosaikindlagt. (various references)

Dutch		artistiek betegeld. (various references)

French		revêtu de façon artistique, en mosaïque. (various references)

German		tesselierte. (various references)

Greek		καλλιτεχνική επένδυση, ψηφιδωτόσ (mosaic). (various references)

Hungarian		mozaikkal kirakott. (various references)

Italian		rivestito in modo artistico. (various references)

Manx		mosaicagh. (various references)

Pig Latin		essellatedtay

Portuguese		revestimentos artísticos, em xadrez, disposto em quadrados. (various references)

Russian		мозаичный (mosaic). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		u obliku mozaika, kockast (blockish, chequered, cubical, dicey). (various references)

Spanish		chapado en estilo artistico. (various references)

Swedish		mosaik- (mosaic). (various references)

Turkish		mozaik kaplı. (various references)

Vietnamese		khảm; lát đá hoa nhiều m� u. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: Tessellated

Language	Period	Translations
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	tessellatus. (various references)
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Misspellings: Tessellated

Misspellings
	"Tessellated" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: teselate, tessalate, tesselata, tesselated, tessilate. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: Tessellated

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-d-e-e-e-l-l-s-s-t-t"
	-1 letter: tessellate.
	-2 letters: tasselled, teaselled.
	-3 letters: allseeds, dateless, detassel, leadless, sedatest, stellate, tasseled, teaseled.
	-4 letters: allseed, delates, deletes, desalts, detests, estated, estates, latests, sallets, saltest, sedates, settees, settled, settles, slatted, sleeted, stalest, stalled, steeled, stellas, tallest, teasels, teleses, testees.
	-5 letters: allees, dalles, delate, delete, deltas, desalt, detest, easels, elated, elates, eldest, estate, ladles, lasted, latest, lattes, leased, leases, leasts, lessee, letted, sallet, salted, sealed, seated, sedate, seeled, selles, sestet, settee, settle, slated, slates, sleets, stades, staled, stales, stalls, stated, states, steads, steals, steeds, steels, stelae, steles, stella, tassel, tasset, tasted, tastes, teased, teasel, teases, teated, teslas, testae, tested, testee, testes, tsades, tsetse.
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