Tilings is an English word. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Tilings meaning
plural of tiling
Using Tilings
- The main meaning on this page is: plural of tiling
- In the example corpus, tilings often appears in combinations such as: tilings or, prismatic tilings, tilings of.
Context around Tilings
- Average sentence length in these examples: 22.4 words
- Position in the sentence: 2 start, 10 middle, 0 end
- Sentence types: 12 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Tilings
- In this selection, "tilings" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 22.4 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, prismatic, aperiodic, include and respectively stand out and add context to how "tilings" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include of these tilings are wythoff and alternated cubic tilings have the. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "tilings" sits close to words such as aami, aat and abada, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with tilings
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Examples include: *Tilings or tessellations of the plane. (8 words)
His tilings of the plane underlie the newly discovered quasi-crystals. (11 words)
The elongated and gyroelongated alternated cubic tilings have the same vertex figure, but are not alike. (16 words)
The gyroelongated triangular prismatic tiling has the same vertex figure as one of the plain prismatic tilings; the two may be derived from the gyrated and plain triangular prismatic tilings, respectively, by inserting layers of cubes. (36 words)
Or, in other words: : Animated GIF file showing successive tilings of the plane, and a graph of approximations to the Golden Ratio calculated by dividing successive pairs of Fibonacci numbers, one by the other. (34 words)
With orbifold notation symmetry of *n32 all of these tilings are Wythoff constructions within a fundamental domain of symmetry, with generator points at the right angle corner of the domain. (30 words)
Example sentences (12)
The gyroelongated triangular prismatic tiling has the same vertex figure as one of the plain prismatic tilings; the two may be derived from the gyrated and plain triangular prismatic tilings, respectively, by inserting layers of cubes.
Examples include: *Tilings or tessellations of the plane.
His tilings of the plane underlie the newly discovered quasi-crystals.
It thus suffices to prove Stokes' theorem for sufficiently fine tilings (or, equivalently, simplices ), which usually is not difficult.
Or, in other words: : Animated GIF file showing successive tilings of the plane, and a graph of approximations to the Golden Ratio calculated by dividing successive pairs of Fibonacci numbers, one by the other.
Such tilings or tessellations are infinite and do not bound a "4D" volume, and are examples of infinite 4-polytopes.
The elongated and gyroelongated alternated cubic tilings have the same vertex figure, but are not alike.
The regular icosahedron, seen as a snub tetrahedron, is a member of a sequence of snubbed polyhedra and tilings with vertex figure (3.3.3.3.
These are the same methods that produce aperiodic tilings with the additional constraint for the diffractive property.
The Socolar-Taylor tile forms two-dimensional aperiodic tilings, but is defined by combinatorial matching conditions rather than purely by its shape.
With orbifold notation symmetry of *n32 all of these tilings are Wythoff constructions within a fundamental domain of symmetry, with generator points at the right angle corner of the domain.
With orbifold notation symmetry of *n32 all of these tilings are wythoff construction within a fundamental domain of symmetry, with generator points at the right angle corner of the domain.
Common combinations with tilings
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- tilings or 3×
- prismatic tilings 2×
- tilings of 2×
- tilings with 2×
- aperiodic tilings 2×
- these tilings 2×
- tilings are 2×