mosaic

mosaic

See also: Mosaic and mósáic

English

A mosaic design

Alternative forms

• mosaick (obsolete)
• musaic (archaic)

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)).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /məʊˈzeɪk/, /məʊˈzeɪ.ɪk/

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• (General American) IPA^(key): /moʊˈzeɪ.ɪk/, /moʊˈzeɪk/
• Rhymes: -eɪk, -eɪɪk

Noun

mosaic (countable and uncountable, plural mosaics)

1. A piece of artwork created by placing colored squares (usually tiles) in a pattern so as to create a picture.
2. pixelization (method of censorship) (Can we add an example for this sense?)
3. (genetics) An individual composed of two or more cell lines of different genetic or chromosomal constitution, but from the same zygote.
4. (phytopathology) Any of several viral diseases that cause mosaic-like patterns to appear on leaves.
5. A composite picture made from overlapping photographs.

Derived terms

• mosaicist
• mosaicry

Translations

artwork

Arabic: فُسَيْفِسَاء‎ (ar) m (fusayfisāʔ) Armenian: խճանկար (hy) (xčankar) Azerbaijani: mozaika Basque: mosaiko Belarusian: маза́іка f (mazáika) Bulgarian: моза́йка (bg) f (mozájka) Catalan: mosaic (ca) m Chinese: Mandarin: 馬賽克／马赛克 (zh) (mǎsàikè) Corsican: musaicu, mosaicu Czech: mozaika (cs) f Danish: mosaik c Dutch: mozaïek (nl) n Emilian: please add this translation if you can Esperanto: mozaiko Estonian: mosaiik Finnish: mosaiikki (fi) French: mosaïque (fr) f Galician: mosaico m Georgian: მოზაიკა (mozaiḳa) German: Mosaik (de) n Greek: ψηφιδωτό (el) n (psifidotó), μωσαϊκό (el) n (mosaïkó) Ancient: ἔμβλημα (émblēma) Hebrew: פסיפס‎ (he) m (psefás), מוזאיקה‎ f (mozaika) Hindi: मौज़ेक (mauzek) Hungarian: mozaik (hu) Icelandic: mósaík (is) m Ido: mozaiko (io) Indonesian: mosaik (id) Irish: mósáic f Italian: mosaico (it) m Japanese: モザイク (ja) (mozaiku) Kalmyk: шигдәмл (shigdäml) Korean: 모자이크 (ko) (mojaikeu) Latvian: mozaīka f Ligurian: mozàico m Lithuanian: mozaika f Lombard: please add this translation if you can Macedonian: мозаик m (mozaik) Maori: rōpinepine, maramaratae, toi rōpinepine Norwegian: Bokmål: mosaikk m Nynorsk: mosaikk m Occitan: mosaïc (oc) f Persian: موزائیک‎ (fa) (mozâïk) Piedmontese: mosàich m Polish: mozaika (pl) f Portuguese: mosaico (pt) m Romagnol: please add this translation if you can Romanian: mozaic (ro) n Russian: моза́ика (ru) f (mozáika) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: мозаик m Roman: mozaik (sh) m Slovak: mozaika f Slovene: mozaik (sl) m Spanish: mosaico (es) m Swedish: mosaik (sv) c Tagalog: mularan, mosaic Thai: โมเสก (mohsàyk) Turkish: mozaik (tr) Ukrainian: моза́їка f (mozájika) Uzbek: mozaika (uz) Vietnamese: mosaic (vi) Volapük: mosaig (vo)

genetically diverse individual

Arabic: please add this translation if you can Armenian: մոզաիկ (hy) (mozaik) Chinese: Mandarin: 嵌合体 (zh) Czech: mozaika (cs) f Dutch: mozaïek (nl) n Finnish: mosaiikki (fi) French: mosaïque (fr) f German: Mosaik (de) n Hindi: please add this translation if you can Italian: please add this translation if you can Japanese: please add this translation if you can Korean: please add this translation if you can Portuguese: mosaico (pt) m Russian: моза́ика (ru) f (mozáika) Spanish: mosaico (es) m Vietnamese: please add this translation if you can

viral disease

Arabic: please add this translation if you can Armenian: մոզաիկա (hy) (mozaika), մոզաիկություն (mozaikutʿyun), մոզաիկ հիվանդություն (mozaik hivandutʿyun) Chinese: Mandarin: 花叶病 (zh) Czech: mozaika (cs) f Dutch: mozaïekvirus (nl) Finnish: mosaiikki (fi) French: mosaïque (fr) f German: Mosaikvirus n Hindi: please add this translation if you can Italian: please add this translation if you can Japanese: please add this translation if you can Korean: please add this translation if you can Portuguese: mosaico (pt) m Russian: моза́ика (ru) f (mozáika) Spanish: mosaico (es) m Vietnamese: please add this translation if you can

composite picture

Bulgarian: мозайка (bg) f (mozajka) Chinese: Mandarin: 馬賽克／马赛克 (zh) (mǎsàikè) Czech: koláž (cs) f Danish: collage c Dutch: collage (nl) f Finnish: kollaasi (fi) German: Collage (de) f Italian: mosaico (it) m Russian: колла́ж (ru) m (kolláž) Spanish: mosaico (es) m Turkish: kesyap (tr)

Adjective

mosaic (not comparable)

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

Verb

mosaic (third-person singular simple present mosaics, present participle mosaicing or mosaicking, simple past and past participle mosaiced or mosaicked)

1. (transitive) To arrange in a mosaic.
   • 1944, War Department Technical Manual (volume 5, issue 240, page 60)

     Featheredging is a process in preparing the photographs for mosaicking and involves cutting, tearing, and sandpapering the back of the print along its edges in such a way that the edge of the print is thin and will make a smooth match with adjoining prints.

Related terms

• alphamosaic
• mosaicism
• mosaicist
• photomosaic

See also

• intarsia
• mosaic on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Mosaic (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

References

• Redslob, Gustav Moritz (1860), “Über den Ausdruck „Mosaïk“”, in Zeitschrift der Deutschen Morgenländischen Gesellschaft, volume 14, pages 663–678

Anagrams

• Amicos, Samoic

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Catalan

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Valencian) IPA^(key): /moˈzajk/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /muˈzajk/

Noun

mosaic m (plural mosaics)

1. mosaic

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Friulian

Noun

mosaic m (plural mosaics)

1. mosaic