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Encyclopedia > Mosaic (disambiguation)

The term Mosaic may have the following meanings.

  • Mosaic - a decorative art.
  • Mosaic - one of the first web browsers.
  • "Mosaic" can mean "pertaining to Moses", or to the laws he established (Mosaic law).
  • Genetic mosaicism - when there is more than one genotype present in a patient
  • Mosaic is a type of censorship used in Japanese pornography to comply with obscenity laws.
  • Mosaic (cultural) - Canada's policy for multiculturalism... as contrasted with the "melting pot" theory of American culture.
  • The Mosaic world was a world created from pieces stolen from other worlds in DC Comics Green Lantern series.
  • A Habitat mosaic is said to exist on a site if within it there are many habitats, but areas of each are found in a scattered pattern through the site, such that any given part of the site consists of areas of multiple habitat types.
  • Mosaic is the software used by marketeers in the United Kingdom to profile residents in different areas of the country
  • Mosaic theory - the idea that individual items of unclassified information, when compiled, have the potential to produce classified information
  • mosaic is a software package used to analyse radio telescope data, particularly that coming from ATNF.
  • Mosaic Records is a record label, founded by Michael Cuscuna, which produces expensive high-quality boxed sets of jazz recordings from the past.

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BIGpedia - Mosaic - Encyclopedia and Dictionary Online (797 words)
Mosaic is a medium of art that may embody the most meaningful iconography in a culture's most important settings, as in the cathedral of Monreale (below), or it may be a technique of decorative art, an aspect of interior decoration.
Mosaics of the 4th century BC are found in the Macedonian palace-city of Aegina and they enriched the floors of Hellenistic villas, but mosaic floors are particularly associated with Roman dwellings, from Britain (illustration, right) to Dura-Europas.
The greatest development of Christian mosaics unfolded in the Byzantine empire including its outpost the Exarchate of Ravenna and its territories in Sicily, and in its late rival Venice, where mosaic encrusts the exterior and interior of St Mark's.
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