Main Entry: 1mo·sa·ic
Pronunciation: mO-'zA-ik
Function: noun
Etymology: Middle English musycke, from Middle French mosaique, from Old Italian mosaico, from Medieval Latin musaicum, alteration of Late Latin musivum, from Latin museum, musaeum
Date: 15th century
1 : a surface decoration made by inlaying small pieces of variously colored material to form pictures or patterns; also : the process of making it
2 : a picture or design made in mosaic
3 : something resembling a mosaic <a mosaic of visions and daydreams and memories -- Lawrence Shainberg>
4 : an organism or one of its parts composed of cells of more than one genotype : CHIMERA 3