decorative work made from small pieces of different coloured material, e.g. glass or stone, inlaid to form pictures or patterns: compare tessera
a picture or pattern produced from this
(used before a noun) in the form of a mosaic or composed of mosaic
a mosaic floor
something like a mosaic
an organism, or part of one, composed of cells with different genetic make-up; = chimera (3)
a virus disease of plants, e.g. tobacco, characterized esp by diffuse yellow and green mottling of the foliage
an arrangement of photosensitive cells in the tube of a television camera
mosaicist noun
[Middle English musycke via French from Latin musaicum, alteration of musivum, neuter of musivus of a muse, artistic, from Latin Musa muse]