mosaic vision

noun

1. a type of vision hypothesized for the insect compound eye, in which the image is formed by hundreds of separate ommatidia.

Word History and Origins

Origin of mosaic vision¹

First recorded in 1875–80

Example Sentences

By the exquisite standards of Robert Moses, 75, father and president of the New York World's Fair, the 646-acre monument to Mosaic vision is falling somewhat short of the mark.

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Some of the details of the Mosaic vision of the primeval chaos may be supplied by the probabilities established by physics and chemistry.

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Hence arose the fourth gospel, which was no more a conscious violation of historic data than Hugh Miller's imaginative description of the "Mosaic Vision of Creation."

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