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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (6)

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. arrangement of aerial photographs forming a composite picture;
[syn: mosaic, arial mosaic, photomosaic]


ADJECTIVE (1)

1. of or relating to Moses or the laws and writings attributed to him;
- Example: "Mosaic Law"


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

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. [1913 Webster] A very beautiful mosaic pavement. --Addison. [1913 Webster] 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. [1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

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. [1913 Webster] 2. A picture or design made in mosaic; an article decorated in mosaic. [1913 Webster] 3. Something resembling a mosaic[1]; something made up of different pieces, fitted together by design to form a unified composition. [PJC] 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. [PJC]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

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. [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

Mosaic adj 1: of or relating to Moses or the laws and writings attributed to him; "Mosaic Law" 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: arrangement of aerial photographs forming a composite picture [syn: mosaic, arial mosaic, photomosaic]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

58 Moby Thesaurus words for "mosaic": abstract, abstraction, altarpiece, block print, check, checked, checker, checkerboard, checkered, checkerwork, chessboard, chimera, collage, color print, colors in patches, copy, crazy-work, cyclorama, daub, diptych, engraving, fresco, harlequin, icon, illumination, illustration, image, likeness, marquetry, miniature, montage, mural, panorama, parquet, parquetry, patchwork, photograph, picture, plaid, pomato, potomato, print, representation, reproduction, stained glass window, stencil, still life, tableau, tapestry, tartan, tessellate, tessellated, tessellation, tesserae, topato, triptych, variegated pattern, wall painting
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

18 Moby Thesaurus words for "Mosaic": Biblical, Gospel, New-Testament, Old-Testament, apocalyptic, apostolic, canonical, evangelic, evangelistic, gospel, inspired, prophetic, revealed, revelational, scriptural, textual, textuary, theopneustic
The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (30 December 2018):

Mosaic NCSA's browser (client) for the 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)