"supertile" meaning in English

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "super",
        "3": "tile"
      },
      "expansion": "super- + tile",
      "name": "prefix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From super- + tile.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "supertiles",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "supertile (plural supertiles)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English terms prefixed with super-",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Computer graphics",
          "orig": "en:Computer graphics",
          "parents": [
            "Computing",
            "Technology",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1999, Mickey Kawick, Real-Time Strategy Game Programming Using Direct 6.0, page 478:",
          "text": "But the only landscape that would ever move would be water — if you can call it landscape. No other land really moves except in geologic time. In order for moving landscape to work, you'll need supertiles, and lots of them.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2001, Torben Ægidius Mogensen, “Board building - Hex tiles - the only way to go?”, in rec.games.design (Usenet):",
          "text": "Alternatively, you can make \"supertiles\" that have more than 1 hex/rectangle each to get grouping. 4-6 areas per supertile is probably O.K. Not all areas on supertile need to be the same, but theer^([sic]) should not be more than two different terrains on a supertile.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A group of connected tiles that can be placed, like a single tile, in a generated landscape."
      ],
      "id": "en-supertile-en-noun-LEFLgEUa",
      "links": [
        [
          "computer graphics",
          "computer graphics"
        ],
        [
          "tile",
          "tile"
        ],
        [
          "landscape",
          "landscape"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(computer graphics) A group of connected tiles that can be placed, like a single tile, in a generated landscape."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "metatile"
        }
      ],
      "topics": [
        "computer-graphics",
        "computing",
        "engineering",
        "mathematics",
        "natural-sciences",
        "physical-sciences",
        "sciences"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "audio": "LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-supertile.wav",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/d/d4/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Flame%2C_not_lame-supertile.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Flame%2C_not_lame-supertile.wav.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/d/d4/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Flame%2C_not_lame-supertile.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Flame%2C_not_lame-supertile.wav.ogg"
    }
  ],
  "word": "supertile"
}

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "super",
        "3": "tile"
      },
      "expansion": "super- + tile",
      "name": "prefix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From super- + tile.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "supertiles",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "supertile (plural supertiles)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English nouns",
        "English terms prefixed with super-",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned",
        "en:Computer graphics"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1999, Mickey Kawick, Real-Time Strategy Game Programming Using Direct 6.0, page 478:",
          "text": "But the only landscape that would ever move would be water — if you can call it landscape. No other land really moves except in geologic time. In order for moving landscape to work, you'll need supertiles, and lots of them.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2001, Torben Ægidius Mogensen, “Board building - Hex tiles - the only way to go?”, in rec.games.design (Usenet):",
          "text": "Alternatively, you can make \"supertiles\" that have more than 1 hex/rectangle each to get grouping. 4-6 areas per supertile is probably O.K. Not all areas on supertile need to be the same, but theer^([sic]) should not be more than two different terrains on a supertile.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A group of connected tiles that can be placed, like a single tile, in a generated landscape."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "computer graphics",
          "computer graphics"
        ],
        [
          "tile",
          "tile"
        ],
        [
          "landscape",
          "landscape"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(computer graphics) A group of connected tiles that can be placed, like a single tile, in a generated landscape."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "metatile"
        }
      ],
      "topics": [
        "computer-graphics",
        "computing",
        "engineering",
        "mathematics",
        "natural-sciences",
        "physical-sciences",
        "sciences"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "audio": "LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-supertile.wav",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/d/d4/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Flame%2C_not_lame-supertile.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Flame%2C_not_lame-supertile.wav.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/d/d4/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Flame%2C_not_lame-supertile.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Flame%2C_not_lame-supertile.wav.ogg"
    }
  ],
  "word": "supertile"
}