The piece takes shape as we hear the basic building blocks - like individual tiles in a mosaic - slipping into place.

Presumably, the individual tiles formed square or rectangular shapes when properly placed together.

"Why not just build the big panels instead of the individual tiles?"

They could not make out individual tiles, much less the extent of the damage.

Among the military tiles, individual tiles of the same pair (such as 1-4 and 2-3) rank equally.

The rankings of the individual tiles are similar in most games.

A tessera is an individual tile in a mosaic.

In my contest for Iraq war poetry, the most moving focused on individual tiles rather than the larger mosaic.

The vibrant colors are the result of several layers of paint on each individual tile.

Each image is cut into 12 individual tiles.