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MOSAIC
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Art consisting of a design made of small pieces of colored stone or glass
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("mosaic" is a kind of...):
art; fine art (the products of human creativity; works of art collectively)
Meronyms (parts of "mosaic"):
tessera (a small square tile of stone or glass used in making mosaics)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Arrangement of aerial photographs forming a composite picture
Synonyms:
arial mosaic; mosaic; photomosaic
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("mosaic" is a kind of...):
exposure; photo; photograph; pic; picture (a representation of a person or scene in the form of a print or transparent slide or in digital format)
Sense 3
Meaning:
Transducer formed by the light-sensitive surface on a television camera tube
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("mosaic" is a kind of...):
transducer (an electrical device that converts one form of energy into another)
Holonyms ("mosaic" is a part of...):
camera; television camera; tv camera (television equipment consisting of a lens system that focuses an image on a photosensitive mosaic that is scanned by an electron beam)
Sense 4
Meaning:
A pattern resembling a mosaic
Classified under:
Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents
Hypernyms ("mosaic" is a kind of...):
form; pattern; shape (a perceptual structure)
Sense 5
Meaning:
A freeware browser
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Instance hypernyms:
browser; web browser (a program used to view HTML documents)
Sense 6
Meaning:
Viral disease in solanaceous plants (tomatoes, potatoes, tobacco) resulting in mottling and often shriveling of the leaves
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Hypernyms ("mosaic" is a kind of...):
plant disease (a disease that affects plants)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "mosaic"):
potato mosaic (a disease of the leaves of potato plants)
tobacco mosaic (a plant disease causing discoloration of the leaves of tobacco plants)
II. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Of or relating to Moses or the laws and writings attributed to him
Example:
Mosaic Law
Classified under:
Relational adjectives (pertainyms)
Pertainym:
Moses ((Old Testament) the Hebrew prophet who led the Israelites from Egypt across the Red sea on a journey known as the Exodus; Moses received the Ten Commandments from God on Mount Sinai)
Context examples:
Titan's numerous smaller lakes can be seen around the seas and scattered around the right side of the mosaic.
(Cassini's Final View of Titan's Northern Lakes and Seas, NASA)
The images in this mosaic were taken with the ISS narrow-angle camera, using a spectral filter sensitive to wavelengths of near-infrared light centered at 938 nanometers.
(Cassini's Final View of Titan's Northern Lakes and Seas, NASA)
Punga Mare (240 miles, or 390 kilometers, across) is seen just above the center of the mosaic, with Ligeia Mare (300 miles, or 500 kilometers, wide) below center and the vast Kraken Mare stretching off 730 miles (1,200 kilometers) to the left of the mosaic.
(Cassini's Final View of Titan's Northern Lakes and Seas, NASA)
