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musaic

musaic is the archaic form of mosaic.

Meaning of mosaic

Noun

mosaic (countable and uncountable, plural mosaics)

  1. A piece of artwork created by placing colored pieces (usually tiles, either regular or irregular in shape) in a pattern so as to create a picture.
  2. Pixelization. (a method of censorship)
    • Using censorship's ability to enhance laughter, modern comedy uses a full array of censorship tools: strategically placed censors' black bars ... digitalized mosaic blurs or pixilations^([sic]) that obscure body parts, crude gestures, and the like ...2019, Laura Little, Guilty Pleasures: Comedy and Law in America, Oxford University Press, archived from the original on 19 Jul 2023, page 65
  3. An individual composed of two or more cell lines of different genetic or chromosomal constitution, but from the same zygote.
  4. Any of several viral diseases that cause mosaic-like patterns to appear on leaves.
  5. A composite picture made from overlapping photographs.
  6. (figuratively) Any composite structure made from diverse elements.

See all 9 meanings of mosaic

Forms of musaic

pluralmusaics

Questions about musaic

What is musaic the archaic form of?
Musaic is the archaic form of mosaic.

Words near musaic in the dictionary

  1. musaharatis
  2. musahharati
  3. musahharatis
  4. musahhir
  5. musahhirs
  6. musaic
  7. musaics
  8. musakhan
  9. musal
  10. musalla
  11. musallas

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Adapted from Wiktionary: musaic (page history and authors); mosaic (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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