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mosaic(1) (iou)



mosaic noun & adjective1. LME.

A. noun.
The process of producing pictures or decorative patterns by cementing together small pieces of stone, glass, or other (usu. hard) material of various colours; pictures or patterns, or a constructive or decorative material, produced in this way. LME.
K. Clark The floors were of mosaic with figures, like a Roman pavement. S. Kitzinger We shall be able, as if piecing together fragments of mosaic, to learn more and more.
b. A piece of mosaic; a design in mosaic. L17.
J. J. Hennessy The expenditure of 60,000 on a mosaic outside the council offices.
transf. & fig. Something resembling mosaic or a mosaic in its diversity of composition; spec. a mosaic map or photograph. M17.
W. Hogarth The pine-apple, which nature has..distinguished by bestowing..rich mosaic upon it. Listener Janacek..building his structures from a mosaic of ideas. M. Gee Living like animals, the floor..a mosaic of bottles and coke-cans and girly magazines.
Biology. An individual (commonly an animal) composed of cells of two genetically different types. E20.
An array of small photo-emissive metal plates forming the target plate in a television camera tube; an array of piezoelectric transducers in an ultrasonic detector. E20.
Mosaic disease of plants. M20.
rugose mosaic: see RUGOSE 1.
b. adjective.
Pertaining to mosaic as a form of art; produced in mosaic: L16.
P. Cutting The bathhouse with its..bright mosaic floors.
b. transf. & fig. Diverse in composition or appearance; resembling the colours or patterns of mosaic. M17.
Railway Magazine The large diagrammatic mosaic control panel gives details of all the power supplies.
Embryology. Of, pertaining to, or characterized by a mode of development in which regions in an embryo are predetermined by the corresponding regions in that embryo at an earlier stage of development. L19.
Designating a viral plant disease characterized by a mottled pattern of discoloration on the leaves. L19.
Biology. Having or composed of cells of two genetically different types. E20.
Of a composite photograph or map: made up of a number of separate photographs of overlapping areas. E20.
Crystallography. Of (the structure of) a crystal: made up of small blocks of perfect lattices set at very slight angles to one another. M20.
Special collocations: mosaic gold (a) tin disulphide (stannic sulphide), used as an imitation gold pigment; (b) an alloy of copper and zinc used in cheap jewellery and ornamental metalwork. mosaic work = sense A.1 above.
mosaically adverb E17.