tetromino

English

WOTD – 4 March 2007

Etymology

From tetra- +‎ -omino.

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /tɛˈtɹɒmɪnəʊ/
  • (General American) IPA(key): /tɛˈtɹɑməˌnoʊ/
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  • Rhymes: -ɒmɪnəʊ, -ɒmənəʊ

Noun

tetromino (plural tetrominoes)

  1. (geometry) A polyomino made up of four squares connected edge to edge.
    • 2011 October 15, Maki Kaji, The Big Book of Visual Sudoku‎[1], Workman Publishing Company, page 118:
      If a domino had four squares on its surface, it would be a tetromino. With five squares, it would be a pentomino—nine, a nonomino, eleven, an unwieldy undecomino!

Synonyms

  • 4-omino
n squares name
1 squares monomino
2 squares domino
3 squares tromino or triomino
4 squares tetromino
5 squares pentomino
6 squares hexomino
7 squares heptomino
8 squares octomino
9 squares nonomino or enneomino
10 squares decomino
11 squares undecomino
12 squares dodecomino
n squares n-omino
unspecified number
squares		 polyomino

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