mosaic
A piece of artwork created by placing colored pieces (usually tiles, either regular or irregular in shape) in a pattern so as to create a picture.
Other meanings
Pixelization. a method of censorship
An individual composed of two or more cell lines of different genetic or chromosomal constitution, but from the same zygote.
A kind of
- art
Related words
- demosaic
- macromosaic
- micromosaic
- mosaical
- mosaicity
- mosaiclike
- mosaicplasty
- mosaiculture
- mosaist
- nanomosaic
- nonmosaic
- orthomosaic
Word history
From Ancient Greek "Μουσεῖον".
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “mosaic” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; related-word lists use Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0, based on Princeton WordNet), published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.