art consisting of a design made of small pieces of colored stone or glass
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viral disease in solanaceous plants (tomatoes, potatoes, tobacco) resulting in mottling and often shriveling of the leaves
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a freeware browser
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a pattern resembling a mosaic
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transducer formed by the light-sensitive surface on a television camera tube
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arrangement of aerial photographs forming a composite picture
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of or relating to Moses or the laws and writings attributed to him
<adj.pert> Mosaic Law
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.
A very beautiful mosaic pavement. --Addison.
{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.
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}.
2. A picture or design made in mosaic; an article decorated in mosaic.
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]
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.
The virus used to insert new genes into the plants is the tobacco mosaic virus, which selectively infects tobacco plants and causes damage to leaves that resembles a mosaic pattern.
The virus used to insert new genes into the plants is the tobacco mosaic virus, which selectively infects tobacco plants and causes damage to leaves that resembles a mosaic pattern.
Their search might seem to border on the obsessive, but restorers say they're assembling small pieces of the historical mosaic of Lincoln's life.
Briefly under French occupation after the Second World War, the city is an ethnic mosaic, where Turks, Arabs and Kurds live side by side in the heart of a rich agricultural belt.
He said the team will return this spring to unroll the mosaic and place it on a special epoxy resin base to reduce humidity before it goes on display.
But it's basically a mosaic of life back then in that black community, one that dramatizes events leading up to the riots and the deadly nights of rage, looting and burning that erupted there 25 years ago this month.
The contested region in Azerbaijan shows in microcosm the problems faced by the Kremlin on a national scale in formulating a nationalities policy that takes all pieces of the country's human mosaic into account.
The most painstaking work is being done by Adel Jabari, 38, who said it took two months to place the 20,000 pieces of glass and stone in each square meter (10.76 square feet) of mosaic.
The minister of tourism, Abdul Karim Kabariti, said the mosaic depicting a tree of life was "priceless."
"We are a wonderful and diverse mosaic of races and creeds and ethnic groups bound together by our love for this country; by our belief in its future; and by our deep and abiding faith in the American dream," he said.
The Memorial Church, with its mosaic tiles and stained glass windows, was partially destroyed in 1906, four years after its completion, and restored in 1913.
A 1,400-year-old mosaic of the Roman goddess of fortune was sawed out of a stone floor and stolen from an unguarded archaeological site in northern Israel, officials said Sunday.
The new tile work was finished on the mosaic Tuesday.
The 10- by 40-foot mosaic shows white pre-Civil War settlers in covered wagons and a freed slave, with a broken rope hanging from his wrists, celebrating his freedom.
Lake Merritt United Methodist Church is constructing its new building around the glittering mosaic, valued in the millions of dollars but donated by another church.
On the urban campus, where every identifiable group seems to have its own unofficial corner in the Student Activities Center, most people see the white union as part of the mosaic.
Minnesota is more susceptible to livestock predation than Yellowstone, he said. "In Minnesota the ranches are scattered like a mosaic throughout the wolves' territory.
Sometimes, wheat streak mosaic and other diseases or pests may mask the presence of the aphids, he said.
Police recovered a 1,200-year-old mosaic in a raid near the capital and arrested three mosaic dealers accused of ripping the artwork out of the floor of an ancient desert castle a week ago, authorities said Sunday.
Police recovered a 1,200-year-old mosaic in a raid near the capital and arrested three mosaic dealers accused of ripping the artwork out of the floor of an ancient desert castle a week ago, authorities said Sunday.
But this time, the electorate had an organized alternative representing the same ethnic mosaic as the National Front.