0 a pattern or picture made using many small pieces of coloured stone or glass, or the activity or method of making these:
a beautiful tenth-century mosaic
On one of the clinic's walls is a mosaic depicting a woman and child wearing traditional clothing.
Mosaic is an ancient art form which can be used to brighten up a corner of your garden.
The "island" of Venice is actually a mosaic of 118 tiny islands.
200,000 mirrored stainless steel disks respond to air currents, creating an ever-changing mosaic of light.
1 a combination of many different parts forming one thing:
2 made using, or in the form of, many small pieces of coloured stone, glass, ceramic, etc.:
3 a pattern or picture of many small pieces of colored stone or glass:
a mosaic floor
The Bardo Museum is home to one of the world's finest collections of Roman mosaics.
You could learn candlemaking, glassblowing, ceramics, mosaic or even furniture making.
The instrument panel is a mosaic of changing numeric displays.
The savannah consists of shifting mosaics of woodland and open grasslands.
I think it was this mosaic of experiences in his life that made him special.
That story is another fragment in the mosaic of the African American story.
Four of his nine novels were actually mosaics of interlinked novellas.
The mosaic on the floor is gone, the physical image destroyed.