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mosaic
/moʊˈzeɪ.ɪk/
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What does mosaic mean?
noun
- A piece of artwork created by placing colored pieces (usually tiles, either regular or irregular in shape) in a pattern so as to create a picture.
- Pixelization. (a method of censorship)
- An individual composed of two or more cell lines of different genetic or chromosomal constitution, but from the same zygote.
More meanings (6)
noun
- Any of several viral diseases that cause mosaic-like patterns to appear on leaves.
- A composite picture made from overlapping photographs.
- (figuratively) Any composite structure made from diverse elements.
adjective
- Containing cells of varying genetic constitution.
- Pertaining to Moses, or the writings and traditions attributed to him.
verb
- To arrange in a mosaic.
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IPA pronunciation
/moʊˈzeɪ.ɪk/
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But she checked herself, and, taking up a paper-weight in mosaic, began to polish it with her black apron.
Was it policy, we mean prudence, which induced Proudhon to screen his ideas of equality behind the Mosaic law?
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By the facts recently discovered, a credibility is added to the Mosaic account of the peopling of the earth.
Leaning on his elbow against an angle of a costly mosaic table, he no longer saw me,—he had forgotten my presence.
A nest in my own neighbourhood provides me with a pretty Snail-shell, Helix striata, forming a rose-pattern in the middle of the mosaic.