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noun
A small square piece of stone, wood, ivory or glass used for making a mosaic.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
A complex-ridged surface feature seen on plateau highlands of Venus and perhaps on Triton.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: astronomy, natural-sciences, planetology
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noun
An ancient Roman die.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: rare
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noun
a small square tile of stone or glass used in making mosaics
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: tile
Narrower terms: tessella
History
Borrowed from Latin tessera (“a cube, a die with numbers on all six sides”), from Ancient Greek τέσσαρες (téssares, “four”).
Across languages
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