(n.) A surface decoration made by inlaying in patterns small pieces of variously colored glass, stone, or other material; -- called also mosaic work.
(n.) A picture or design made in mosaic; an article decorated in mosaic.
(a.) Of or pertaining to the style of work called mosaic; formed by uniting pieces of different colors; variegated; tessellated; also, composed of various materials or ingredients.
(a.) Of or pertaining to Moses, the leader of the Israelites, or established through his agency; as, the Mosaic law, rites, or institutions.
Example Sentences:
(1) Confined placental chorionic mosaicism is reported in 2% of viable pregnancies cytogenetically analyzed on chorionic villi samplings (CVS) at 9-12 weeks of gestation.
(2) Mutational mosaicism was used as a developmental model to analyze 1,500 sporadic and 179 familial cases of retinoblastoma from the world literature.
(3) It is commonly assumed that the visual resolution limit must be equal to or less than the Nyquist frequency of the cone mosaic.
(4) The Cauliflower Mosaic Virus (CaMV) genome is a double-stranded DNA molecule of about 5 million daltons.
(5) A stillborn girl, with external signs of trisomy 18 syndrome, was subsequently shown to have a mosaic pattern in both the lymphocytes and the placenta.
(6) Insights into how these seemingly disparate functions may be integrated have emerged from studies that have demonstrated that the mammalian striatum is composed of two compartments arranged as a mosaic, the patches and the matrix, which differ in their neurochemical and neuroanatomical properties.
(7) The majority of variants were found to be inherited; however, at least seven of the 99 variants were not present in either parent, and an additional seven differed from the parental variant by either a morphological change or the appearance of mosaicism.
(8) Microstructural rearrangements and nonhomologous recombination in nondisjunction of chromosomes during cell division are considered parallel with mosaicism as one of possible reasons of genetic predisposition.
(9) Endogenous interferon was produced in animals in response to the administration of tobacco mosaic virus (TMV), tilorone and sodium nucleinate.
(10) The results indicate the beta-globin domain is a mosaic of aggregation-resistant and aggregation-prone regions with the latter being associated with H1 and H5.
(11) We report here the first case of a mosaic Down's syndrome in which both clones are trisomic for chromosome 21, one of them (90%) by a Robertsonian translocation (15;21) appearing de novo, and the other (10%) by an additional chromosome 21.
(12) Confined placental mosaicism may play a role in the intrauterine survival of some trisomy 22 conceptions.
(13) The P cytotype-like effects include suppression of snw germline hypermutability, snw somatic mosaicism, pupal lethality, and gonadal dysgenic sterility.
(14) Two patients had trisomy for G-group chromosome and one patient had mosaic trisomy.
(15) The cauliflower mosaic virus (CaMV) 35 S RNA is a full-length transcript of the viral genome.
(16) Although only a small section of the site has been excavated, there are baths, luxurious houses, an amphitheatre, a forum, shops, gardens with working fountains and city walls to explore, with many wonderful mosaics still in situ.
(17) It is suggested that the protrusion of membrane proteins into the aqueous phase, the consequent expression of cell surface charge, and the temperature-dependent modulation of the latter may be related to the lateral mosaicism of membrane lipids and reflect the state of membrane fluidity.
(18) One of the precipitating MAbs recognized an epitope which appears to be common to AMV and cucumber mosaic virus.
(19) This delta pro mutant sequence, as well as the sequence of the wild-type sporamin cDNA, was placed downstream from the promoter of the 35S transcript from cauliflower mosaic virus and introduced into the genome of suspension-cultured tobacco cells by Agrobacterium-mediated transformation.
(20) Two genes, uidA encoding beta-glucuronidase (GUS) from Escherichia coli and Luc, encoding firefly luciferase (LUC), were used to analyze the ability of a cap, polyadenylated tail, and the 5'- and 3'-untranslated regions (UTR) from tobacco mosaic virus (TMV) to regulate expression.
Tessellate
Definition:
(v. t.) To form into squares or checkers; to lay with checkered work.
(a.) Tessellated.
Example Sentences:
(1) I arrange my coins into ascending size in my pockets, for example, and nothing gives me more comfort than the knowledge that my forks, knives and spoons are all in the correct place, tessellating magnificently in their drawer.
(2) Cells, considered as polygons, site their division line according to stochastic rules, eventually forming a tessellation of the plane.
(3) The selected area of the section is covered by a tessellation of domains.
(4) In contrast, the regular tessellation tended to increase feature means and decrease feature variances.
(5) Parapapillary chorioretinal atrophy was associated with shallow glaucomatous cupping, diffuse nerve fiber loss, markedly tessellated fundus and only moderately elevated intraocular pressure.
(6) Current techniques in composite-block-structured grid generation and unstructured grid generation for general 3D geometries are summarized, including both algebraic and elliptic generation procedures for the former and Delaunay tessellations for the latter.
(8) The group's first single, Tessellate , an onomatopoeic puzzle of angular beats and pointed sexual advances, became a radio hit before anyone knew who they were.
(9) Also, distinctness of a tesselated fundus, frequency of optic disc haemorrhages and frequency of bared circumlinear or bared cilioretinal vessels did not differ significantly.
(10) A vesicle simulation and computer analysis program, VESICA, is described which employs spherical projections of triangularly tessellated icosahedra to produce molecular graphics models of the three-dimensional structures of lipid vesicles.
(11) The tessellated marble fountain in the courtyard in front of his church now has a hole the size of a large soup-plate.
(12) In fish 55-65 mm long, about 300 formed a tessellated array across each retina.
(13) Parapapillary chorioretinal atrophy was associated with shallow glaucomatous cupping, diffuse nerve fiber loss, a marked tessellated fundus, and only moderately elevated intraocular pressure.
(14) Especially when you consider the meaning behind the lyrics to their debut single, Tessellate .
(15) Consequently, the extracted features showed subtle but consistent differences, with decreasing anisotropic effects and data dispersion for the regular tessellation.
(16) The low-income suburb is a mix of public housing and new residential estates, whose tessellating culs-de-sacs brush up against horse paddocks and small farms.
(17) Expected to be general, these trends recommend use of the regular tessellation, especially when classification accuracy may depend on small differences in several similar geometric features.
(18) On solid materials migrated cells maintained their tessellated morphology and exhibited numerous micro-appendages anchoring them to the surface of the test materials.
(19) In addition, cells contacting others near the 45 degree diagonals were more readily segmented when the image was tessellated on the regular lattice.
(20) The few systems capable of processing hexagonally tessellated images have approximated this tessellation by using image data acquired on a rectangular sampling lattice, from which six of the eight image samples were selected from each local neighborhood.