Of or relating to Moses or the laws and writings attributed to him

ETYM From Moses.
Decorated with small pieces of colored glass or stone fitted together; SYN. tessellated.

ETYM French mosaďque.
1. Design made of small pieces of colored stone or glass.
2. Any pattern resembling a mosaic.
3. Assembly of aerial photographs forming a composite picture.
4. Light-sensitive surface on a television camera tube.
5. Viral disease in solanaceous plants (tomatoes; potatoes; tobacco) resulting in mottling and often shriveling of the leaves.
Design or picture, usually for a floor, wall or vault, produced by setting small pieces of marble, glass, or other materials in a cement ground. The ancient Greeks were the first to use a form of mosaic (for example, the Macedonian royal palace at Pella). Mosaic was commonly used by the Romans for their baths and villas (for example Hadrian's Villa at Tivoli) and reached its highest development in the early Byzantine period (for example, San Vitale, Ravenna).
The art was revived during the 13th century, when it was used chiefly for the decoration of churches (for example, the Church of the Apostles, Thessaloníki).

The first popular graphical World Wide Web browser. Released on the Internet in early 1993 by the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Mosaic is available as freeware and shareware for Windows, Macintosh, and X Window systems. Mosaic is distinguished from other early Web browsers by its ease of use and its addition of inline images to Web documents. Also called: NCSA Mosaic.
The first WWW browser that was available for the Macintosh, Windows,and UNIX all with the same interface. Mosaic really started the popularity of the Web. The source-code to Mosaic was licensed by several companies and used to create many other web browsersA freeware browser.
Program that allows the user to search for and view data. Mosaic provides a graphical interface to the Internet via the World-Wide Web and html. It was developed by the National Center for Supercomputing Applications at the University of Illinois and is available as freeware. Versions are available for the ibm pc, Apple Macintosh and Unix (under X-Windows).
Most commercial suppliers of Internet services distribute Mosaic to their customers because of the way that it allows even novices to navigate the Internet.

1. To decorate with mosaics
2. To form into a mosaic