tiling

Etymology

noun

1. A covering of tiles.
   All the tiling in the bathroom must be removed because of water damage to the wood under it.
2. (uncountable) The act of applying tiles.
   We spent all day doing the tiling in the bathroom.
3. (geometry) A tessellation; the covering of a plane with shapes, without overlaps or gaps.
4. (computing theory) A technique for optimizing loops by partitioning the iteration space into smaller chunks or blocks that will more easily fit in a cache.

verb

1. present participle and gerund of tile