tiling

IPA: tˈaɪɫɪŋ

A covering of tiles.
(uncountable) The act of applying tiles.
(geometry) A tessellation; the covering of a plane with shapes, without overlaps or gaps.
(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.

Examples of "tiling" in Sentences

Used to be that "tiling" and "one day" only appeared together in a
Mr. Carrillo gradually learned English and skills such as tiling and carpentry.
The tiling was a blur in the sight, a black blot of shadow that normal radiance would neither dissipate nor illuminate.
Used to be that "tiling" and "one day" only appeared together in a "I'll get around to that tiling project one day" kind of way.
In an attempt to open this sector to women, pioneer women were trained in construction-related jobs such as tiling, painting and bricklaying.
You can easily create very large walls with hundreds of thousands of bricks and never see any repetition or tiling which is a common problem with traditional textures.
The shops, each retaining many original 1920s art-deco features such as tiling, 'sunburst' lights and engraved glass features are time capsules of suburban shopping from nearly a century ago.
So, basically, they directly compared the technique used in the ENCODE analysis the "tiling" microarray analysis to more modern deep sequencing methods, and found that the old results were mostly artifacts of the protocol.
Moreover, the proportion of the genome that is transcribed in any given cell type remains an open question: results from "tiling" microarray analyses suggest that transcription is pervasive and that most of the genome is transcribed, whereas new deep sequencing-based methods suggest that most transcripts originate from known genes.