monohedrally
English
Regular hexagons tile the plane monohedrally.
Etymology
From monohedral + -ly.
Adverb
monohedrally (not comparable)
- (geometry) In a monohedral manner; involving only copies of the original tile (allowing for translation, rotation, and reflection).
- 1987, Branko Grünbaum; G[eoffrey] C[olin] Shephard, Tilings and Patterns, New York, N.Y.: W. H. Freeman and Company, →ISBN, page 22:
- The extent of our ignorance is further illustrated by the fact that we do not know all the different shapes of convex pentagons which will tile the plane monohedrally.
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