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|musivum (opus)|lang=la}}, 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)
• Chinese:

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

• Dutch: mozaïek (nl)
• Esperanto: mozaiko (eo)
• Finnish: mosaiikki (fi)
• French: mosaïque (fr) f
• German: Mosaik (de) n
• Greek: ψηφιδωτό (el) (psifidotó) n, μωσαϊκό (el) (mosaïkó) n
• Hungarian: mozaik (hu)

• Irish: mósáic (ga) f
• Italian: mosaico (it) m
• Japanese: モザイク (ja) (mozaiku)
• Polish: mozaika (pl) f
• Romanian: mozaic (ro) n
• Russian: мозаика (ru) (mozáika) f
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: мозаик (sh) m

  Roman: mozaik (sh) m

• Swedish: mosaik (sv) c
• Turkish: mozaik (tr), silmetaş (tr)

genetically diverse individual

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• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 嵌合体 (cmn)

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• Dutch: mozaïek (nl) n
• Finnish: mosaiikki (fi)
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• Portuguese: mosaico (pt) m
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viral disease

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• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 花叶病 (cmn)

• Czech: mozaika (cs) f
• Dutch: mozaïekvirus (nl)
• Finnish: mosaiikki (fi)
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composite picture

• Chinese:

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

• Dutch: collage (nl) f
• Finnish: kollaasi (fi)

• German: Collage (de) f
• Italian: mosaico (it) m
• Turkish: kesyap (tr)

Adjective

mosaic (not comparable)

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

Related terms

• alphamosaic
• mosaicism
• mosaicist
• photomosaic

See also

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