mosaic

See also Mosaic

English

A mosaic design

Alternative forms

• mosaick (obsolete)

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -eɪɪk

Etymology

From Middle French mosaïque, from Italian mosaico, from Medieval Latin musaicum, from Late Latin musivum (opus), from Latin museum, musaeum, probably from Ancient Greek Μουσεῖον (Mouseîon), shrine of the Muses (Μοῦσα (Moûsa)).

Noun

mosaic (plural mosaics)

1. A piece of artwork created by placing colored squares (usually tiles) in a pattern so as to create a picture.
2. (genetics) An individual composed of two or more cell lines of different genetic or chromosomal constitution, but from the same zygote.
3. (botany) A viral disease of plants.
4. A composite picture made from overlapping photographs.

Translations

artwork

Arabic: فسيفساء (ar) (fusayfisaa') m. Armenian: խճանկար (hy) (xč̣ankar) Bosnian: mozaik (bs) m. Chinese: Mandarin: 馬賽克 (cmn), 马赛克 (cmn) (mǎsàikè) Esperanto: mozaiko (eo) Finnish: mosaiikki (fi) French: mosaïque (fr) f. German: Mosaik (de) n. Hungarian: mozaik (hu)

Irish: mósáic (ga) f. Japanese: モザイク (ja) (mozaiku) Polish: mozaika (pl) f. Romanian: mozaic (ro) n. Russian: мозаика (ru) (mozáika) f. Serbian: Cyrillic: мозаик m. Latin: mozaik m. Swedish: mosaik c.

genetically diverse individual

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viral disease

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composite picture

Chinese: Mandarin: 馬賽克 (cmn), 马赛克 (cmn) (mǎsàikè)

Finnish: kollaasi (fi) German: Collage (de) f.

Adjective

mosaic (not comparable)

1. (of an individual) Containing cells with of varying genetic constitution.

Related terms

• mosaicism
• mosaicist

See also

• Mosaic on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Mosaic (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia:Mosaic (disambiguation)