Tiles are usually thin, square or rectangular coverings manufactured from hard-wearing material such as ceramic, stone, metal, baked clay, or even glass...
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Look up tiling in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Tiling may refer to: The physical act of laying tiles Tessellations The compiler optimization of loop...
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Mahjong tiles (Chinese: 麻將牌 or 麻雀牌; pinyin: májiàngpái; Cantonese Jyutping: maa4zoek3paai2; Japanese: 麻雀牌; rōmaji: mājanpai) are tiles of Chinese origin...
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Tessellation (redirect from Periodic tiling)
A tessellation or tiling is the covering of a surface, often a plane, using one or more geometric shapes, called tiles, with no overlaps and no gaps. In...
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Penrose tiling is an example of an aperiodic tiling. Here, a tiling is a covering of the plane by non-overlapping polygons or other shapes, and a tiling is...
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Piano Tiles (known on iOS as Piano Tiles – Don't Tap the White Tile and on Android as Don't Tap the White Tile) is a single-player mobile game originally...
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Rummikub (redirect from Rummy Tile)
"rummy cube") is a tile-based game for 2 to 4 players, combining elements of the card game rummy and mahjong. There are 106 tiles in the game, including...
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A tile crank is used in a pottery kiln to hold a stack of ceramic tiles apart while they are fired. This allows multiple tiles to be fired at once under...
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graphic design, Truchet tiles are square tiles decorated with patterns that are not rotationally symmetric. When placed in a square tiling of the plane, they...
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Tile (stylized as tile) is an American consumer electronics company which produces tracking devices that users can attach to their belongings such as keys...
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Vitrified tile is a ceramic tile with very low porosity. It is an alternative to marble and granite flooring. Vitrified tiles are often used outdoors...
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A tile-based game is a game that uses tiles as one of the fundamental elements of play. Traditional tile-based games use small tiles as playing pieces...
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Mangalore tiles (also Mangalorean tiles) are a type of roof tile produced in the city of Mangalore, India. Tiles were first produced in the city by German...
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Scrabble letter distributions (redirect from Scrabble tile distributions)
Scrabble in different languages have differing letter distributions of the tiles, because the frequency of each letter of the alphabet is different for every...
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The Toynbee tiles, also called Toynbee plaques, are messages of unknown origin found embedded in asphalt of streets in about two dozen major cities in...
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Mahjong (section Suited tiles)
Mahjong (English pronunciation: /mɑːˈdʒɒŋ/ mah-JONG) is a tile-based game that was developed in the 19th century in China and has spread throughout the...
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Tile drainage is a form of agricultural drainage system that removes excess sub-surface water from fields to allow sufficient air space within the soil...
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Tile art is a small arrangement of tiles, or in some cases a single tile, with a painted pattern or image on top. Tile art includes other forms of tile-based...
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French drain (redirect from Weeping tile)
from an area. The perforated pipe is called a weeping tile (also called a drain tile or perimeter tile). When the pipe is draining, it "weeps", or exudes...
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Magna-Tiles are a construction toy system. The pieces are plastic tiles of varying shapes that snap together magnetically, allowing users to build various...
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In computing, a tiling window manager is a window manager with the organization of the screen often dependant on mathematical formulas to organise the...
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Einstein problem (redirect from Einstein tile (one-stone tile))
single polyhedron that tiles Euclidean 3-space, but such that no tessellation by this polyhedron is isohedral. Such anisohedral tiles were found by Karl Reinhardt...
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Meteor Lake (section Compute tile)
tape-in process for Meteor Lake took place in May 2021. The CPU compute tile was confirmed to be fabricated on Intel's 7nm process (since rebranded to...
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Topps Tiles plc, trading as Topps Tiles, is a British national tile retailer based in Enderby, Leicestershire. The company was founded by Alan Brindle...
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Roof tiles are overlapping tiles designed mainly to keep out precipitation such as rain or snow, and are traditionally made from locally available materials...
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Look up tiler in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Tiler is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Brian Tiler (1943–1990), English footballer...
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Flooring (redirect from Floating tile flooring)
Materials almost always classified as flooring include carpet, laminate, tile, and vinyl. The floor under the flooring is called the subfloor, which provides...
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Porcelain tiles or ceramic tiles are either tiles made of porcelain, or relatively tough ceramic tiles made with a variety of materials and methods, that...
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Monk and Nun (redirect from Mission tile)
and cover, mission tiling, Spanish tile, gutter tile, or barrel tile, is a style of arranging roof tiles, using semi-cylindrical tiles similar to imbrex...
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Encaustic or inlaid tiles are ceramic tiles in which the pattern or figure on the surface is not a product of the glaze but of different colors of clay...
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