mosaic

  • 21Mosaic — NCSA Mosaic Navigateur web Mosaic, le premier navigateur graphique populaire pour le World Wide Web, a été créé par Marc L. Andreessen et Eric J. Bina au Centre national pour les applications des super ordinateurs (NCSA). Lors de sa mise à… …

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  • 22mosaic — mo•sa•ic [[t]moʊˈzeɪ ɪk[/t]] n. adj. v. icked, ick•ing 1) fia a picture or decoration made of small, usu. colored pieces of inlaid stone, glass, etc 2) fia the process of producing such a picture or decoration 3) something resembling a mosaic,… …

    From formal English to slang

  • 23mosaic — I. noun Etymology: Middle English musycke, from Medieval Latin musaicum, alteration of Late Latin musivum, from Latin museum, musaeum Date: 15th century 1. a surface decoration made by inlaying small pieces of variously colored material to form… …

    New Collegiate Dictionary

  • 24mosaic — In photogrammetry, an assembly of overlapping aerial photographs that have been matched to form a continuous photographic representation of a portion of the earth’s surface. A mosaic may be controlled, semicontrolled, or uncontrolled. A… …

    Aviation dictionary

  • 25mosaic — mo|sa|ic [məuˈzeı ık US mou ] n [Date: 1300 1400; : Old French; Origin: mosaique, from Late Latin musivus of a muse, artistic , from Latin Musa; MUSE2] 1.) [U and C] a pattern or picture made by fitting together small pieces of coloured stone,… …

    Dictionary of contemporary English

  • 26mosaic — UK [məʊˈzeɪɪk] / US [moʊˈzeɪɪk] noun [countable/uncountable] Word forms mosaic : singular mosaic plural mosaics 1) art a pattern or picture made of many small coloured pieces of stone, glass etc a Roman mosaic floor 2) something that consists of… …

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  • 27mosaic — /moʊˈzeɪɪk / (say moh zayik), /məˈzeɪɪk / (say muh zayik) noun 1. a picture or decoration made of small pieces of stone, glass, etc., of different colours, inlaid to form a design. 2. the process of producing it. 3. something resembling a mosaic… …

  • 28Mosaic — An individual or tissue containing two or more types of genetically different cells. All females are mosaics because of X chromosome inactivation (lyonization). Mosaic patterns can affect how genetic disorders are expressed. For example, about 5… …

    Medical dictionary

  • 29mosaic — [16] Mosaic work is etymologically work ‘of the muses’. The word comes ultimately from Greek mouseion, which originally meant literally ‘place of the muses’, and has also given English museum. Somehow in medieval Latin it became altered to… …

    The Hutchinson dictionary of word origins

  • 30mosaic — [mə(ʊ) zeɪɪk] noun 1》 a picture or pattern produced by arranging together small pieces of coloured stone, tile, or glass.     ↘a colourful pattern resembling a mosaic. 2》 Biology an individual (especially an animal) composed of cells of two… …

    English new terms dictionary