tiling

Meanings

Plural: tilings

Noun

• 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

Synonyms

tile