Monotile

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A prototile tiling monohedrally; any shape able to completely tile some space on its own (allowing for translation, rotation, and reflection).

    "In the following section we will describe families of tilings by a curious three-dimensional aperiodic monotile whose matching rule — for some values of its parameter — is weak but not strong."

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"Mathematicians have finally discovered an aperiodic monotile, that is, a polygon that can only tile the plane in aperiodic tessellations."

Etymology

From mono- (“one”) + tile.

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