A covering of tiles.
Used in a Sentence
tiling
Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for tiling.
Editorial note
It's a great example of marketing and an innovative blend of a modern tiling map and an old school guide map.
Examples14
Definitions4
Parts of speech1
Quick take
A covering of tiles.
Meaning at a glance
The clearest senses and uses of tiling gathered in one view.
(uncountable) The act of applying tiles.
(geometry) A tessellation; the covering of a plane with shapes, without overlaps or gaps.
Definitions
Core meanings and parts of speech for tiling.
noun
A covering of tiles.
noun
(uncountable) The act of applying tiles.
noun
(geometry) A tessellation; the covering of a plane with shapes, without overlaps or gaps.
noun
(computing theory) A technique for optimizing loops by partitioning the iteration space into smaller chunks or blocks that will more easily fit in a cache.
Example sentences
It's a great example of marketing and an innovative blend of a modern tiling map and an old school guide map.
Their custom controls and tiling/layout systems are tailored to the application domain.
You might be able to use them to tile the whole plane (e.g., the obvious square tiling, like the pixels of a computer display).
The undecidability of the halting problem (the problem of testing whether a Turing machine eventually halts) then implies the undecidability of Wang's tiling problem.
Further, didn't I read that the new Windows had tiling built in in some capacity?
Now I'm working on a built-in tiling/split windowing system and on to become a terminal multiplexer toolkit builder of sorts I guess.
Basically a tiling WM running as a program.
Some things found in Oberon, like tiling window management, I use everyday.
I'm not sold on the tiling window managers, ya the tiling is nice, but they look terrible, require way too much config, and sometimes I just want to use the mouse damn it.
Does Windows 8.1 do tiling any better/automatically?
Windows 8.1 has a tiling window interface.
I like the idea of making tiling window management more accessible.
Quote examples
With OS X "splitscreen", tiling window management becomes very accessible.
"A tiny fraction of the already small number of linux users" OSX has several tiling applications that work quite well - I have been using OSX as a tiling WM since 2009 and it works great.
Frequently asked questions
Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.
How do you use tiling in a sentence?
It's a great example of marketing and an innovative blend of a modern tiling map and an old school guide map.
What does tiling mean?
A covering of tiles.
What part of speech is tiling?
tiling is commonly used as noun.