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- a picture or pattern produced by arranging together small variously coloured pieces of hard material, such as stone, tile, or glass马赛克, （小块杂色硬质材料如石头、瓷砖、玻璃等的）镶嵌图案：
as modifier a mosaic floor.马赛克拼花地面。
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- mass noun decorative work of this kind马赛克装饰物：
the walls and vaults are decorated by marble and mosaic.
墙壁和拱顶是用大理石和马赛克装饰的。
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- a colourful and variegated pattern斑斓艳丽的图案：
the bird's plumage was a mosaic of slate-grey, blue, and brown.
这只鸟的羽毛色彩斑斓, 由深蓝灰色、蓝色和棕色夹杂而成。
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- a combination of diverse elements forming a more or less coherent whole不同要素结合而成的整体, 不同要素组合体：
an incompetently constructed mosaic of competing interests.
构筑不善的不同利益集团联合体。
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- an arrangement of photosensitive elements in a television camera（电视摄像机的）感光镶嵌板面。
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- Biology an individual (especially an animal) composed of cells of two genetically different types【生】嵌合体。
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- （亦作mosaic disease）a virus disease that results in leaf variegation in tobacco, maize, sugar cane, and other plants花叶病。
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mosaicked, mosaicking
with obj. decorate with a mosaic用马赛克装饰：as adj. mosaicked the mosaicked swimming pool.用马赛克装饰的游泳池。
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- combine (distinct or disparate elements) to form a picture or pattern整合（组合不同要素构成画面或图案）：
the digital data were combined, or mosaicked, to delineate counties.
整合数码资料绘出各郡轮廓。
- Biology denoting an individual composed of cells of two genetically different types【生】镶嵌性的。
派生词
mosaicist
noun词源
late Middle English: from French mosaïque, based on Latin musi(v)um 'decoration with small square stones'， perhaps ultimately from Greek mousa 'a muse'.