tiling

About 0.44 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. noun A covering of tiles.

   All the tiling in the bathroom must be removed because of water damage to the wood under it.

2. noun The act of applying tiles.

   We spent all day doing the tiling in the bathroom.

3. noun A tessellation; the covering of a plane with shapes, without overlaps or gaps.
4. noun A technique for optimizing loops by partitioning the iteration space into smaller chunks or blocks that will more easily fit in a cache.
5. verb present participle and gerund of tile

Similar words

roofing tile jigsaw mosaic tapestry patchwork hodgepodge puzzle roof tile rooftile head

Often followed by

of is to and in that the for which

Word family

tilings