noun

1. the process of making pictures or designs by inlaying small bits of colored stone, glass, tile, etc. in mortar
2. inlaid work made by this process
3. a picture or design so made
4. anything resembling this, as a number of aerial photographs pieced together to show a continuous area
5. Biol. chimera ()
6. Bot. any of the viral diseases that cause wrinkling or mottling of leaves
7. TV the photosensitive plate in an iconoscope or other television camera tube

Etymology: LME musycke < OFr musique < ML musaicum, altered < LL musivum, mosaic, orig. neut. of L musivus, artistic, of a muse < L musa, muse: sp. altered by assoc. with Fr mosaïque < It mosaico < same ML source

adjective

transitive verb mosaicked -·icked, mosaicking -·ick·ing

1. to make by or as by mosaic
2. to decorate with mosaics