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by mbi 1176 days ago
"An aperiodic tiling is a non-periodic tiling with the additional property that it does not contain arbitrarily large periodic regions or patches" [1]

So, it has "islands" of repenting combinations of tiles, but these islands do not repeat / translate in a regular way.

1: https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Aperiodic_tiling