A picture or decorative design made by setting small colored pieces, as of stone or tile, into a surface.
The process or art of making such pictures or designs.
A composite picture made of overlapping, usually aerial, photographs.
Something that resembles a mosaic: a mosaic of testimony from various witnesses.
Botany A viral disease of plants, resulting in light and dark areas in the leaves, which often become shriveled and dwarfed.
A photosensitive surface, as in the iconoscope of a television camera.
Biology An individual exhibiting mosaicism.
tr.v.
mo·sa·icked, mo·sa·ick·ing, mo·sa·ics
To make by mosaic: mosaic a design on a rosewood box.
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.
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