The difference between triangulation and mesh

Question

I have done some computer graphical programming recently, and I have no experience before. I used the library call CGAL(computer geometry algorithm library). Also, I noticed that there is class for triangulation and also class for mesh. Is mesh just a kind of triangle net? Do they have any differences?

Thanks!

Answer 1

this should be of help http://www.cgal.org/Manual/3.5/doc_html/cgal_manual/contents.html

Answer 2

Triangulation is one way to mesh the geometry. And it is also possible to represent geometry in different shapes.