Tessellation \Tes`sel*la"tion\, n.
   The act of tessellating; also, the mosaic work so formed.
   --J. Forsyth.
   [1913 Webster]

	

	tessellation
    n 1: the careful juxtaposition of shapes in a pattern; "a
         tessellation of hexagons"
    2: the act of adorning with mosaic