Definition of mosaic | Bee Dictionary of English

n art consisting of a design made of small pieces of colored stone or glass
n viral disease in solanaceous plants (tomatoes, potatoes, tobacco) resulting in mottling and often shriveling of the leaves
n a freeware browser
n a pattern resembling a mosaic
n transducer formed by the light-sensitive surface on a television camera tube
n arrangement of aerial photographs forming a composite picture
a of or relating to Moses or the laws and writings attributed to him

The audience had to remember, or look up, tessellation, which is a mosaic of small pieces of marble, glass or tile.
A magnifying glass shows individual paintings forming a puzzle mosaic of the Mona Lisa at the International Tokyo Toy Show.
Politically, however, the cities make up a complex and ever shifting mosaic, as local elections across the nation demonstrated last week.

Fossil kangaroo teeth reveal mosaic of Pliocene ecosystems in Queensland
The teeth of a kangaroo and other extinct marsupials reveal that southeastern Queensland 2.5-5-million-years ago was a mosaic of tropical forests, wetlands and grasslands and much less arid than previously thought.
June 13, 2013 - Science Daily
Mosaic and the Fertilizers are In Play
TheStreet.com has a buy rating on The Mosaic Company (MOS). I think that the fertilizer chemicals sector has turned positive, MOS being of that sector's best stocks. Technically, MOS is forming into my coiling pattern. Should the one year time-frame of the slow stochastic as well as RSI continue to improve their upward momentum MOS could break out into the mid-to-high $60's. MOS has cash on hand ...
June 11, 2013 - TheStreet.com
Mosaic lands on historic places registry
AXTELL — The Mosaic at Bethphage Village campus in Axtell was recently placed on the National Register of Historic Places.
June 11, 2013 - Kearney Hub

Angela Merkel in AFP
Opening the conference, German Chancellor Angela Merkel said that improved security measures on the ground, such as more police on the beat and a functioning justice system, were "a small piece in the mosaic of a greater plan."
Paul Durand-Ruel in BusinessWeek
Pierre Assouline, who wrote about the impressionists in a biography of Monet's art dealer, Paul Durand-Ruel, called the collection "a mosaic portrait of a great artist."
Lloyd Robertson in CTV.ca
He put the stamp on the network as a credible and critical force in the Canadian broadcasting mosaic,Robertson said.