1) Bit of floorwork 2) Bit of marble 3) Bit of mosaic 4) Fancy bathroom floor 5) Marble tile 6) Mosaic component 7) Mosaic part 8) Mosaic piece 9) Mosaic square 10) Mosaic tile 11) Mosaic tile square 12) Mosaic unit 13) Mosiac tile 14) Piece of art 15) Piece of mosaic 16) Piece used in mosaic 17) Small mosaic tile
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1) Tessella 2) Tile
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A tessera (plural: tesserae, diminutive tessella) is an individual tile, usually formed in the shape of a cube, used in creating a mosaic. It is also known as an abaciscus or abaculus. ==Historical tessera== In early antiquity, mosaics were formed from naturally formed colored pebbles, but by 200 BCE cut stone tesserae were being used in Ancient R...
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[Venusian geography] Tessera is a `complex ridged` surface feature seen on Venusian plateau highlands (and maybe on Neptune`s moon Triton). Tessera is thought to be caused by crustal folding, buckling, and breaking. The presence of tessera on Venus suggests that the Venusian surface may be subject to piecewise lateral motions. ...
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[commerce] A tessera was the ancient Roman equivalent of a theater ticket. Stamped into a clay shard was an entrance aisle and row number for spectators attending an event at an amphitheater or arena. Above the doors of the Colosseum in Rome are numbers corresponding to those stamped into a spectator`s tessera. Tesserae frumentariae and num...
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small token or ticket; block of stone used in mosaic; password
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• (n.) A small piece of marble, glass, earthenware, or the like, having a square, or nearly square, face, used by the ancients for mosaic, as for making pavements, for ornamenting walls, and like purposes; also, a similar piece of ivory, bone, wood, etc., used as a ticket of admission to theaters, or as a certificate for successful gladiators,...
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(from the article `Aphrodite Terra`) ...Ovda Regio in the central part and Thetis Regio farther east. Ovda spans about 4,000 km (2,500 miles) from north to south; Thetis, about 3,000 km ... Tesserae (Latin: `mosaic tiles`) are the most geologically complex regions seen on Venus. Several large elevated regions, such as Alpha Re...
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in mosaic work, a small piece of stone, glass, ceramic, or other hard material cut in a cubical or some other regular shape. The earliest tesserae, ... [2 related articles]
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Writing tablet.
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Origin: L, a square piece, a die. See Tessellar. ... A small piece of marble, glass, earthenware, or the like, having a square, or nearly square, face, used by the ancients for mosaic, as for making pavements, for ornamenting walls, and like purposes; also, a similar piece of ivory, bone, wood, etc, used as a ticket of admission to theaters, or as ...
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Bit of colored glass, ceramic tile, or stone used in a mosaic.
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A tile used in a mosaic. This was a small (usually cube-shaped) piece of stone or glass that was set into a mortar, cement, or concrete base in order to form a mosaic pattern on a wall or floor. Also used for a writing tablet, as, for example, the tablet on which the password for an army camp was recorded, or the tablet identifying the rights of a …...
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Tes'se·ra noun ;
plural Tesseræ . [ Latin , a square piece, a die. See
Tessellar .] A small piece of marble, glass, earthenware, or the like, having a square, or nearly square, face, used by the ancients for mosaic, as for making pavements, for ornamenting walls, and like pu...
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A tessera was a Greek or Roman small tablet (of wood or Ivory) used as a token or tally.
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A tile; polygonal ground.
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n] - a small square tile of stone or glass used in making mosaics
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tessera (s), tesserae (pl) 1. From Latin, a square piece, a die; an abbreviation of the Greek word tessaragonos, meaning four-cornered, square. 2. In ancient history, a small quadrilateral tablet of wood, bone, ivory, or the like, used for various purposes, as a token, tally, ticket, label, etc. 3. A token or password; from a quest and ho...
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noun a small square tile of stone or glass used in making mosaics
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