tiling

Plural: tilings

Noun

• A surface or covering made of tiles; the act of installing tiles.
• the application of tiles to cover a surface
• A covering of tiles.
• The act of applying tiles.
• A tessellation; the covering of a plane with shapes, without overlaps or gaps.
• A technique for optimizing loops by partitioning the iteration space into smaller chunks or blocks that will more easily fit in a cache.

Verb

• cover with tiles
• present participle and gerund of tile

Examples

• All the tiling in the bathroom must be removed because of water damage to the wood under it.
• The impressive TILING of his triple-word-score play demonstrated his strategic mastery.
• We spent all day doing the tiling in the bathroom.

Synonyms

tile