Mosaic

7 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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.
        [PJC]
  
     {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]

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  Mosaic
       adj 1: of or relating to Moses or the laws and writings attributed
              to him; "Mosaic Law"
       2: decorated with small pieces of colored glass or stone fitted
          together; "a mosaic floor"; "a tessellated pavement" [syn:
           {tessellated}]
       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: assembly of aerial photographs forming a composite picture

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  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
  
  

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  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
  
  

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:

  Mosaic
       
           {NCSA}'s {browser} ({client}) for the
          {World-Wide 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://www.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)