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say it: moh-ZAY-ik
mosaic is a noun and adjective meaning "art consisting of a design made of small pieces of colored stone or glass". It is pronounced /moʊˈzeɪɪk/ — moh-ZAY-ik. It carries 7 recorded senses.
viral disease in solanaceous plants (tomatoes, potatoes, tobacco) resulting in mottling and often shriveling of the leaves
a freeware browser
a pattern resembling a mosaic
transducer formed by the light-sensitive surface on a television camera tube
arrangement of aerial photographs forming a composite picture
of or relating to Moses or the laws and writings attributed to him
“Mosaic Law”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for mosaic come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.