Mosaic

English Meaning

A surface decoration made by inlaying in patterns small pieces of variously colored glass, stone, or other material; -- called also mosaic work.

1. A picture or decorative design made by setting small colored pieces, as of stone or tile, into a surface.
2. The process or art of making such pictures or designs.
3. A composite picture made of overlapping, usually aerial, photographs.
4. Something that resembles a mosaic: a mosaic of testimony from various witnesses.
5. Botany A viral disease of plants, resulting in light and dark areas in the leaves, which often become shriveled and dwarfed.
6. A photosensitive surface, as in the iconoscope of a television camera.
7. Biology An individual exhibiting mosaicism.
8. To make by mosaic: mosaic a design on a rosewood box.
9. To adorn with or as if with mosaic: mosaic a sidewalk.