Mosaic vs Icon - What's the difference?
mosaic | icon |
A piece of artwork created by placing colored squares (usually tiles) in a pattern so as to create a picture.
(genetics) An individual composed of two or more cell lines of different genetic or chromosomal constitution, but from the same zygote.
(botany) A viral disease of plants.
A composite picture made from overlapping photographs.
(of an individual) Containing cells of varying genetic constitution.
An image, symbol, picture, or other representation usually as an object of religious devotion.
A religious painting, often done on wooden panels.
A person or thing that is the best example of a certain profession or some doing.
A small picture which represents something (such as an icon on a computer screen which when clicked performs some function.)
(linguistics) A type of noun whereby the form reflects and is determined by the referent; onomatopoeic words are necessarily all icons. See also (symbol) and (index).
Pictual representations of files, programs and folders on a computer.
As nouns the difference between mosaic and icon
is that mosaic is mosaic while icon is an image, symbol, picture, or other representation usually as an object of religious devotion.mosaic
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Alternative forms
* mosaick (obsolete)Noun
(en noun)Adjective
(-)See also
* ("mosaic" on Wikipedia) *icon
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(wikipedia icon)Alternative forms
* eikon, ikonNoun
(en noun)- That man is an icon in the business; he personifies loyalty and good business sense.