mosaic
31mosaic — noun 1 (C, U) a pattern or picture made by fitting together small pieces of coloured stone, glass etc: a Roman stone mosaic | mosaic tiles 2 (countable usually singular) a group of various things that are seen or considered together as a pattern …
32mosaic — [16] Mosaic work is etymologically work ‘of the muses’. The word comes ultimately from Greek mouseion, which originally meant literally ‘place of the muses’, and has also given English museum. Somehow in medieval Latin it became altered to… …
33mosaic — An assembly of overlapping photographs that have been matched to form a continuous photographic representation of a portion of the surface of the Earth. See also controlled mosaic; semi controlled mosaic …
34mosaic — n. [Gr. Mousaios, of the Muses] 1. An organism composed of two or more cell lines of different genetic or chromosomal constitution, both cell lines being derived from the same zygote; genetic mosaic; see chimera. 2. An individual displaying… …
35Mosaic — A technique invented by the ancients to decorate the interior surfaces of domestic and public spaces. It entails gluing the minute tesserae produced by cutting colored stones or glass onto wall, ceiling, or floor surfaces to create decorative… …
36mosaic — mo|sa|ic [ mou zeıık ] noun count or uncount 1. ) a pattern or picture made of many small colored pieces of stone, glass, etc.: a Roman mosaic floor 2. ) something that consists of a combination of different things or people: Ontario s cultural… …
37Mosaic — Small cubes called tesserae, made of glass, marble, brick, and various colored stones, set into floors and walls. Floor mosaics, often geometrical in pattern, and pictorial, are common in early Byzantine churches. Some floor mosaics have been… …
38Mosaic — Der erste Browser, der dank seiner grafischen Benutzeroberfläche (GUI) große Verbreitung fand. Der Erfolg von Mosaic beruhte auf seiner einfachen Bedienbarkeit. Mosaic wurde 1992 am National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) der… …
39mosaic — [[t]moʊze͟ɪɪk[/t]] mosaics N VAR A mosaic is a design which consists of small pieces of coloured glass, pottery, or stone set in concrete or plaster. ...a Roman villa which once housed a fine collection of mosaics... He has used a mixture of… …
40mosaic — mo·sa·ic || məʊ zeɪɪk n. design made with small stones or tiles; creation of mosaics; combination of different parts to make a whole; plant disease causing mosaic like discoloration of the leaves (Botany) adj. of or pertaining to a mosaic;… …
