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[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.
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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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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.
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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.
[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.
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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)