tiling

A covering of tiles.

Noun

  1. A covering of tiles.
    • All the tiling in the bathroom must be removed because of water damage to the wood under it.
  2. The act of applying tiles.
    • We spent all day doing the tiling in the bathroom.
  3. A tessellation; the covering of a plane with shapes, without overlaps or gaps.
  4. A technique for optimizing loops by partitioning the iteration space into smaller chunks or blocks that will more easily fit in a cache.

Forms

tilings

Derived

monotiling

Verb

  1. present participle and gerund of tile