tiling

Short definition from Wiktionary

Noun

1. 1
   A covering of tiles.
2. 2
   The act of applying tiles.
3. 3
   A tessellation; the covering of a plane with shapes, without overlaps or gaps.
4. 4
   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. 1
   present participle and gerund of tile