monotile
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
10
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
1
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A prototile tiling monohedrally; any shape able to completely tile some space on its own (allowing for translation, rotation, and reflection).
Example Sentences
- "In the following section we will describe families of tilings by a curious three-dimensional aperiodic monotile whose matching rule — for some values of its parameter — is weak but not strong."
- "And I am sorry I never delivered on the four-dimensional Poultry design. It turns out John Horton Conway found four-dimensional and five-dimensional aperiodic monotiles sixty years ago, but it's not too well documented."
- "This naturally led to serious rumination about the possible existence of a single tile, or monotile, that forces non-periodic global structure."
- "An aperiodic monotile never repeats a formation, no matter how long the pattern."