(mō·zā′ik) noun
1. Inlaid work composed of bits of stone, glass, etc., forming a pattern or picture.
2. A piece of inlaid work of this kind, or anything resembling such work.
3. Phot. An assemblage of aerial photographs pieced together and joined at the margins so as to form a single, continuous picture of a terrain.
4. The plate covered with minute, photosensitive granules which is mounted in the image–scanning element of an electron television camera.
—adjective Of, pertaining to, or resembling mosaic; tessellated; inlaid.
—v.t. ·icked, ·ick·ing
1. To make as if by combining in a mosaic.
2. To decorate with mosaic. [<OF mosaicq <Med. L musaicus <Gk. mouseios of the Muses, artistic <Mousa Muse]
—mo·sa·i·cist (mō·zā′ə·sist) noun

(mō·zā′ik) adjective
Of or pertaining to Moses or his laws. Also Mo·sa′i·cal. [<NL Mosaicus <L Moses Moses]