English Explanatory Dictionary

Wang tile

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A square tile with a colour on each side. Possible sets of such tiles are studied to determine whether they can tile the plane (arranged with like colours touching, and without rotations or reflections) and whether this can be done in a periodic pattern.

Word forms

Wang tile Wang tiles

Etymology

First proposed by mathematician, logician, and philosopher Hao Wang in 1961.

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