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• Tile — For other uses, see Tile (disambiguation). Decorative tilework in Sheikh Lotf Allah Mosque, Isfahan, Iran early 17th century A tile is a manufactured piece of hard wearing material such as ceramic, stone, metal, or even glass. Tiles are generally …   Wikipedia

• tile — tilelike, adj. /tuyl/, n., v., tiled, tiling. n. 1. a thin slab or bent piece of baked clay, sometimes painted or glazed, used for various purposes, as to form one of the units of a roof covering, floor, or revetment. 2. any of various similar… …   Universalium

• Convex uniform honeycomb — The alternated cubic honeycomb is one of 28 space filling uniform tessellations in Euclidean 3 space, composed of alternating yellow tetrahedra and red octahedra. In geometry, a convex uniform honeycomb is a uniform tessellation which fills three …   Wikipedia

• book tile — noun : a flat clay building tile that has hollow sections, that is usually 2 to 3 inches thick, 12 inches wide, and from 16 to 24 inches long, and that is shaped roughly like a closed book so that adjoining pieces fit into each other * * * a flat …   Useful english dictionary

• book tile — a flat, cellular roofing tile having two parallel edges one of which is convex and the other concave, so that a number may be fit together edge to edge between rafters, joists, etc. * * * …   Universalium

• imbrex — /im breks, briks/, n., pl. imbrices / breuh seez , bri kays /. 1. a convex tile, used esp. in ancient Rome to cover joints in a tile roof. 2. Archit. one of the scales in ornamental imbrication. [1855 60; < L, equiv. to imbr (s. of imber)… …   Universalium

• Polyomino — The 18 one sided pentominoes, including 6 mirrored pairs …   Wikipedia

• Anisohedral tiling — In geometry, a shape is said to be anisohedral if it admits a tiling, but no such tiling is isohedral (tile transitive); that is, in any tiling by that shape there are two tiles that are not equivalent under any symmetry of the tiling. A tiling… …   Wikipedia

• Western architecture — Introduction       history of Western architecture from prehistoric Mediterranean cultures to the present.       The history of Western architecture is marked by a series of new solutions to structural problems. During the period from the… …   Universalium

• Tetrahedron — For the academic journal, see Tetrahedron (journal). Regular Tetrahedron (Click here for rotating model) Type Platonic solid Elements F = 4, E = 6 V = 4 (χ = 2) Faces by s …   Wikipedia

• Kite (geometry) — Kite A kite showing its equal sides and its inscribed circle. Type Quadrilateral Edges and vertices 4 Symmetry group D1 (*) In Euclid …   Wikipedia