Definition of "tiling" in English

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