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tiling
To cover with tiles.
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verb
To cover with tiles.
“The handyman tiled the kitchen.”
To arrange in a regular pattern, with adjoining edges (applied to tile-like objects, graphics, windows in a computer interface).
To optimize (a loop in program code) by means of the tiling technique.
verb
To protect from the intrusion of the uninitiated.
“tile the door”
noun
A covering of tiles.
“All the tiling in the bathroom must be removed because of water damage to the wood under it.”
The act of applying tiles.
“We spent all day doing the tiling in the bathroom.”
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.
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The handyman tiled the kitchen.
tile the door
All the tiling in the bathroom must be removed because of water damage to the wood under it.
We spent all day doing the tiling in the bathroom.