different between mosaic vs tessellate

English

Alternative forms

• mosaick (obsolete)
• musaic (archaic)

Etymology

From Middle French mosaïque, from Italian mosaico, from Medieval Latin musaicum, from Late Latin musivum (opus), from Latin museum, musaeum, probably from Ancient Greek ???????? (Mouseîon), shrine of the Muses (????? (Moûsa)).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /m???ze?k/, /m???ze?.?k/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /mo??ze?.?k/, /mo??ze?k/
• Rhymes: -e?k, -e??k

Noun

mosaic (countable and uncountable, plural mosaics)

1. A piece of artwork created by placing colored squares (usually tiles) in a pattern so as to create a picture.
2. (genetics) An individual composed of two or more cell lines of different genetic or chromosomal constitution, but from the same zygote.
3. (phytopathology) Any of several viral diseases that cause mosaic-like patterns to appear on leaves.
4. A composite picture made from overlapping photographs.

Derived terms

• mosaicist

Translations

Adjective

mosaic (not comparable)

1. (of an individual) Containing cells of varying genetic constitution.

Related terms

• alphamosaic
• mosaicism
• mosaicist
• photomosaic

See also

• intarsia
• mosaic on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Mosaic (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

References

• Redslob, Gustav Moritz (1860) , “Über den Ausdruck „Mosaïk“”, in Zeitschrift der Deutschen Morgenländischen Gesellschaft, volume 14, pages 663–678

Anagrams

• Amicos, Samoic

Catalan

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Valencian) IPA^(key): /mo?zajk/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /mu?zajk/

Noun

mosaic m (plural mosaics)

1. mosaic

Friulian

Noun

mosaic m (plural mosaics)

1. mosaic

English

Alternative forms

• tesselate (chiefly U.S.)

Etymology

From Latin tessellatus, from tessella, diminutive of tessera; from Ancient Greek ???????? (téssares), from Proto-Indo-European *k?etwóres.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?t?s?le?t/

Verb

tessellate (third-person singular simple present tessellates, present participle tessellating, simple past and past participle tessellated)

1. (transitive) To cover with tiles or stones, as a mosaic; to tile.
2. (intransitive, geometry) Of a two-dimensional shape, such that multiple copies of itself placed edge to edge cover an area leaving no space between the shapes.

   Regular hexagons tessellate.

3. (transitive, geometry) To completely fill (an area) when multiple copies of one or more two-dimensional shapes are placed edge to edge.

   It is possible to tessellate the plane with equilateral triangles and regular hexagons.

Derived terms

• tessellation

Related terms

• tessella
• tessera

Translations

See also

• tessellate on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Mosaic on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Tile on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Latin

Adjective

tessell?te

1. vocative masculine singular of tessell?tus