Tessera (disambiguation)
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- "Tessera" is the number "4" in GreekGreek languageGreek is an independent branch of the Indo-European family of languages. Native to the southern Balkans, it has the longest documented history of any Indo-European language, spanning 34 centuries of written records. Its writing system has been the Greek alphabet for the majority of its history;...
. "τέσσερα" - A tesseraTesseraA tessera is an individual tile in a mosaic, usually formed in the shape of a cube. It is also known as an abaciscus, abaculus, or, in Persian کاشي معرق. In antiquity, mosaics were formed from naturally colored pebbles, but by 200 BC purpose-made tesserae were being used...
is an individual tile in a mosaic. - Tesserae is the term for diceDiceA die is a small throwable object with multiple resting positions, used for generating random numbers...
used in ancient Rome - The Tessera is the booklet of prayers of the Legion of MaryLegion of MaryThe Legion of Mary is an association of Catholic laity who serve the Church on a voluntary basis. It was founded in Dublin, Ireland, as a Roman Catholic Marian Movement by layman Frank Duff. Today between active and auxiliary members there are in excess of 10 million members worldwide making it...
, a Catholic lay organization. - Tesserae are the layers of calcification on sharkSharkSharks are a type of fish with a full cartilaginous skeleton and a highly streamlined body. The earliest known sharks date from more than 420 million years ago....
s' otherwise cartilaginous jaws and backbones. - Tessera is also a frazioneFrazioneA frazione , in Italy, is the name given in administrative law to a type of territorial subdivision of a comune; for other administrative divisions, see municipio, circoscrizione, quartiere...
of the comune of Venice nearest to Mestre.- Venice-Tessera Airport
- Tessera (commerce)Tessera (commerce)Tessera was the ancient Roman equivalent of a theater ticket. Stamped into a clay shard was an entrance aisle and row number for spectators attending an event at an amphitheater or arena. Above the doors of the Colosseum in Rome are numbers corresponding to those stamped into a spectator's tessera...
was the ancient Roman equivalent of a theater ticket. - Tessera (Venusian geography)Tessera (Venusian geography)Tessera is a "complex ridged" surface feature seen on Venusian plateau highlands . Tessera is thought to be caused by crustal folding, buckling, and breaking. The presence of tessera on Venus suggests that the Venusian surface may be subject to piecewise lateral motions.-External links:*...
are large regions of highly deformed terrain, folded and fractured in two or three dimensions, believed to be unique to VenusVenusVenus is the second planet from the Sun, orbiting it every 224.7 Earth days. The planet is named after Venus, the Roman goddess of love and beauty. After the Moon, it is the brightest natural object in the night sky, reaching an apparent magnitude of −4.6, bright enough to cast shadows... - Tesserae (computer game)Tesserae (computer game)Tesserae is a single-player computer game developed by Nicholas Schlott based on Ken Brewster's DOS game Stained Glass and published by Inline Design in 1990 for the Macintosh....
is also a puzzle game for Macintosh computers by Nicholas Schlott. - Tessera is also the codename for the original iMac G4IMac G4The iMac G4 was a computer that was produced by Apple from the beginning of 2002 to mid 2004. It replaced the aging iMac G3. The computer had a new design compared to older Macs. It had a 15-inch LCD which was mounted on an adjustable arm above a hemisphere containing a full-size, tray-loading...
- Tessera TechnologiesTessera TechnologiesTessera Technologies, Inc. is a San Jose, California-based technology founded in 1990. The company is focused on miniaturization technologies and has licensed its chip packaging technology to numerous semiconductor manufacturers, including Intel and Samsung Electronics.Tessera has been embroiled in...
is an international microelectronics company.