Mosaic

Mosaic
    adj 1: of or relating to Moses or the laws and writings
           attributed to him; "Mosaic Law"
    n 1: art consisting of a design made of small pieces of colored
         stone or glass
    2: viral disease in solanaceous plants (tomatoes, potatoes,
       tobacco) resulting in mottling and often shriveling of the
       leaves
    3: a freeware browser
    4: a pattern resembling a mosaic
    5: transducer formed by the light-sensitive surface on a
       television camera tube
    6: arrangement of aerial photographs forming a composite picture
       [syn: {mosaic}, {arial mosaic}, {photomosaic}]
    

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.
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         A very beautiful mosaic pavement.        --Addison.
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   {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.
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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}.
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   2. A picture or design made in mosaic; an article decorated
      in mosaic.
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   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.
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Mosaic

   <World-Wide Web, tool> {NCSA}'s {browser} ({client}) for the
   {World-Wide Web}.

   Mosaic has been described as "the killer application of the
   1990s" because it was the first program to provide a slick
   {multimedia} {graphical user interface} to the {Internet}'s
   burgeoning wealth of distributed information services
   (formerly mostly limited to {FTP} and {Gopher}) at a time when
   access to the {Internet} was expanding rapidly outside its
   previous domain of academia and large industrial research
   institutions.

   NCSA Mosaic was originally designed and programmed for the {X
   Window System} by Marc Andreessen and Eric Bina at NCSA.
   Version 1.0 was released in April 1993, followed by two
   maintenance releases during summer 1993.  Version 2.0 was
   released in December 1993, along with version 1.0 releases for
   both the {Apple Macintosh} and {Microsoft Windows}.  An
   {Acorn Archimedes} port is underway (May 1994).

   Marc Andreessen, who created the NCSA Mosaic research
   prototype as an undergraduate student at the {University of
   Illinois} left to start {Mosaic Communications Corporation}
   along with five other former students and staff of the
   university who were instrumental in NCSA Mosaic's design and
   development.

   (http://ncsa.uiuc.edu/SDG/Software/Mosaic/Docs/help-about.html).

   (ftp://ftp.ncsa.uiuc.edu/).

   E-mail: <[email protected]> (X version),
   <[email protected]> (Macintosh), <[email protected]>
   (Windows version), <[email protected]> (general help).

   (1995-04-06)
    

58 Moby Thesaurus words for "mosaic":
      abstract, abstraction, altarpiece, block print, check, checked,
      checker, checkerboard, checkered, checkerwork, chessboard, chimera,
      collage, color print, colors in patches, copy, crazy-work,
      cyclorama, daub, diptych, engraving, fresco, harlequin, icon,
      illumination, illustration, image, likeness, marquetry, miniature,
      montage, mural, panorama, parquet, parquetry, patchwork,
      photograph, picture, plaid, pomato, potomato, print,
      representation, reproduction, stained glass window, stencil,
      still life, tableau, tapestry, tartan, tessellate, tessellated,
      tessellation, tesserae, topato, triptych, variegated pattern,
      wall painting

    

18 Moby Thesaurus words for "Mosaic":
      Biblical, Gospel, New-Testament, Old-Testament, apocalyptic,
      apostolic, canonical, evangelic, evangelistic, gospel, inspired,
      prophetic, revealed, revelational, scriptural, textual, textuary,
      theopneustic