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mo⋅sa⋅ic

  [moh-zey-ik] noun, adjective, verb, -icked, -ick⋅ing.
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–noun
1. a picture or decoration made of small, usually colored pieces of inlaid stone, glass, etc.
2. the process of producing such a picture or decoration.
3. something resembling such a picture or decoration in composition, esp. in being made up of diverse elements: a mosaic of borrowed ideas.
4. Also called aerial mosaic, photomosaic. an assembly of aerial photographs matched in such a way as to show a continuous photographic representation of an area (mosaic map).
5. Architecture. (in an architectural plan) a system of patterns for differentiating the areas of a building or the like, sometimes consisting of purely arbitrary patterns used to separate areas according to function but often consisting of plans of flooring, reflected ceiling plans, overhead views of furnishings and equipment, or other items really included in the building or building plan.
6. Also called mosaic disease. Plant Pathology. any of several diseases of plants, characterized by mottled green or green and yellow areas on the leaves, caused by certain viruses.
7. Biology. an organism exhibiting mosaicism.
8. Television. a light-sensitive surface in a television camera tube, consisting of a thin mica sheet coated on one side with a large number of small globules of silver and cesium insulated from each other. The image to be televised is focused on this surface and the resulting charges on the globules are scanned by an electron beam.
–adjective
9. pertaining to, resembling, or used for making a mosaic or mosaic work: a mosaic tile.
10. composed of a combination of diverse elements.
–verb (used with object)
11. to make a mosaic of or from.
12. to decorate with mosaic.
Origin:
1350–1400; ME < MF mosaïque < It mosaico < ML musaicum, re-formation of LL musīvum (opus), L musēum, musaeum mosaic work (quantity of u uncert.), of obscure orig.; variants may show an assumed relationship with Gk mouseîon shrine of the Muses, museum, by analogy with archī(v)um (see archive ), though classical Gk word is not attested in sense “mosaic”

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mo⋅sa⋅i⋅cal⋅ly, adverb
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Mo⋅sa⋅ic

  [moh-zey-ik]
–adjective
of or pertaining to Moses or the writings, laws, and principles attributed to him: Mosaic ethics.
Also, Mo⋅sa⋅i⋅cal.

Origin:
1655–65; < NL Mosaicus, equiv. to LL Mōs(ēs) Moses + -aicus, on the model of Hebraicus Hebraic
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mo·sa·ic   (mō-zā'ĭk)   
n.  
    1. A picture or decorative design made by setting small colored pieces, as of stone or tile, into a surface.
    2. The process or art of making such pictures or designs.
  2. A composite picture made of overlapping, usually aerial, photographs.
  3. Something that resembles a mosaic: a mosaic of testimony from various witnesses.
  4. Botany A viral disease of plants, resulting in light and dark areas in the leaves, which often become shriveled and dwarfed.
  5. A photosensitive surface, as in the iconoscope of a television camera.
  6. Biology An individual exhibiting mosaicism.
tr.v.   mo·sa·icked, mo·sa·ick·ing, mo·sa·ics
  1. To make by mosaic: mosaic a design on a rosewood box.
  2. To adorn with or as if with mosaic: mosaic a sidewalk.

[Middle English musycke, from Old French mosaique, from Old Italian mosaico, from Medieval Latin mūsāicum, neuter of mūsāicus, of the Muses, from Latin Mūsa, Muse, from Greek Mousa; see men-1 in Indo-European roots.]
mo·sa'i·cist (mō-zā'ĭ-sĭst) n.
Mo·sa·ic   (mō-zā'ĭk)   
adj.  Of or relating to Moses or the laws and writings attributed to him.
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Mosaic

Mo*sa"ic\, n. [F. mosa["i]que; cf. Pr. mozaic, musec, Sp. & Pg. mosaico, It. mosaico, musaico, LGr. ?, ?, L. musivum; all fr. Gr. ? belonging to the Muses. See Muse the goddess.]

1. (Fine Arts) A surface decoration made by inlaying in patterns small pieces of variously colored glass, stone, or other material; -- called also mosaic work.

2. A picture or design made in mosaic; an article decorated in mosaic.

Mosaic

Mo*sa"ic\, a. Of or pertaining to the style of work called mosaic; formed by uniting pieces of different colors; variegated; tessellated; also, composed of various materials or ingredients.

A very beautiful mosaic pavement. --Addison.

Florentine mosaic. See under Florentine.

Mosaic gold. (a) See Ormolu. (b) Stannic sulphide, SnS2, obtained as a yellow scaly crystalline powder, and used as a pigment in bronzing and gilding wood and metal work. It was called by the alchemists aurum musivum, or aurum mosaicum. Called also bronze powder.

Mosaic work. See Mosaic, n.

Mosaic

Mo*sa"ic\, a. [From Moses.] Of or pertaining to Moses, the leader of the Israelites, or established through his agency; as, the Mosaic law, rites, or institutions.
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Language Translation for : mosaic
Spanish: mosaico,
German: das Mosaik,
Japanese: モザイク
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mosaic

A picture or design made from small pieces of colored tile, glass, or other material set in mortar. Mosaics have been widely used in Christian churches to decorate walls and ceilings.

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mosaic 
c.1400, from O.Fr. mosaicq "mosaic work," from M.L. musaicum "mosaic work, work of the Muses," neut. of musaicus "of the Muses," from L. Musa (see muse). Medieval mosaics were often dedicated to the Muses. The word formed in M.L. as though from Gk., but the (late) Gk. word for "mosaic work" was mouseion. Fig. use is from 1644.

Mosaic 
"pertaining to Moses," 1662 (earlier Mosaical, 1563), from L. Mosaicus, from Moses (q.v.).
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Main Entry: 1mo·sa·ic
Pronunciation: mO-'zA-ik
Function: noun
: an organism or one of its parts composed of cells of more than onegenotype : CHIMERA

Main Entry: 2mosaic
Function: adjective
1 : exhibiting mosaicism
2 : DETERMINATE —mo·sa·i·cal·ly /-'zA-&-k(&-)lE/ adverb
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mosaic mo·sa·ic (mō-zā'ĭk)
adj.
Patterned in small squares; tesselated. n.
An organism exhibiting mosaicism.

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mosaic   (mō-zā'ĭk)  Pronunciation Key 
Any of various viral diseases of plants, resulting in light and dark areas in the leaves, which often become shriveled and dwarfed.
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Mosaic World-Wide Web, tool
NCSA's browser (client) for the World-Wide Web.
Mosaic has been described as "the killer application of the 1990s" because it was the first program to provide a slick multimedia graphical user interface to the Internet's burgeoning wealth of distributed information services (formerly mostly limited to FTP and Gopher) at a time when access to the Internet was expanding rapidly outside its previous domain of academia and large industrial research institutions.
NCSA Mosaic was originally designed and programmed for the X Window System by Marc Andreessen and Eric Bina at NCSA. Version 1.0 was released in April 1993, followed by two maintenance releases during summer 1993. Version 2.0 was released in December 1993, along with version 1.0 releases for both the Apple Macintosh and Microsoft Windows. An Acorn Archimedes port is underway (May 1994).
Marc Andreessen, who created the NCSA Mosaic research prototype as an undergraduate student at the University of Illinois left to start Mosaic Communications Corporation along with five other former students and staff of the university who were instrumental in NCSA Mosaic's design and development.
(http://ncsa.uiuc.edu/SDG/Software/Mosaic/Docs/help-about.html).
(ftp://ftp.ncsa.uiuc.edu/).
E-mail: (X version), (Macintosh), (Windows version), (general help).
(1995-04-06)

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