Found 4 items, similar to mosaic.
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English → English (WordNet)
Definition: mosaic
mosaic
n 1: art consisting of a design made of small pieces of colored
stone or glass
2: viral disease in solanaceous plants (tomatoes, potatoes,
tobacco) resulting in mottling and often shriveling of the
leaves
3: a freeware browser
4: a pattern resembling a mosaic
5: transducer formed by the light-sensitive surface on a
television camera tube
6: assembly of aerial photographs forming a composite picture
English → English (gcide)
Definition: 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.
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A very beautiful mosaic pavement. --Addison.
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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.
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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.
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2. A picture or design made in mosaic; an article decorated
in mosaic.
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3. Something resembling a mosaic[1]; something made up of
different pieces, fitted together by design to form a
unified composition.
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aerial mosaic An aerial photograph of a large area, made by
carefully fitting together aerial photographs of smaller
areas so that the edges match in location, and the whole
provides a continuous image of the larger area. Called
also
mosaic map and
photomosaic.
mosaic virus A type of plant virus that causes green and
yellow mottling of leaves of a plant. A much-studied type
is the
tobacco mosaic virus, affecting the tobacco
plant.
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Mosaic
\Mo*sa"ic\, prop. 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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