tesseral

English

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “tesseral”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Etymology 1

From tessera +‎ -al.

Adjective

tesseral (comparative more tesseral, superlative most tesseral)

1. Of, or pertaining to, tesserae.
2. isometric.

Synonyms

• tesselar
• tessular

Derived terms

• ditesseral

Etymology 2

Blend of tessara +‎ numeral, used in 1983 to describe such systems over various isohedral tilings of the plane.

Adjective

tesseral (not comparable)

1. (mathematics) Describing number systems, algebras, and algorithms over labeled hierarchical subdivisions of space.

Anagrams

• Laseters, Lasseter, Telessar, rateless, reslates, stealers, tearless, tesselar