tiling
/ˈtaɪlɪŋ/verb
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To cover with tiles.
Example: 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
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To protect from the intrusion of the uninitiated.
Example: tile the door
noun
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A covering of tiles.
Example: All the tiling in the bathroom must be removed because of water damage to the wood under it.
The act of applying tiles.
Example: 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.