shroud vs tessellate

shroud

verb
  • To cover with a shroud. 

  • To take shelter or harbour. 

  • To conceal or hide from view, as if by a shroud. 

  • To lop the branches from (a tree). 

noun
  • That which clothes, covers, conceals, or protects; a garment. 

  • One of the two annular plates at the periphery of a water wheel, which form the sides of the buckets; a shroud plate. 

  • The branching top of a tree; foliage. 

  • One of a set of ropes or cables (rigging) attaching a mast to the sides of a vessel or to another anchor point, serving to support the mast sideways; such rigging collectively. 

  • A covered place used as a retreat or shelter, as a cave or den; also, a vault or crypt. 

  • That which covers or shelters like a shroud. 

  • A streamlined protective covering used to protect the payload during a rocket-powered launch. 

  • Especially, the dress for the dead; a winding sheet. 

tessellate

verb
  • To cover with tiles or stones, as a mosaic; to tile. 

  • To completely fill (an area) when multiple copies of one or more two-dimensional shapes are placed edge to edge. 

  • Of a two-dimensional shape, such that multiple copies of itself placed edge to edge cover an area leaving no space between the shapes. 

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