Definition of Pattern
Noun: pattern pa-tu(r)n
- A perceptual structure
"a visual pattern must include not only objects but the spaces between them";
- form, shape
- A customary way of operation or behaviour
"they changed their dietary pattern";
- practice
- A decorative or artistic work
"the coach had a pattern on the doors";
- design, figure
- Something regarded as a normative example
"the pattern of not naming the main character";
- convention, normal, rule, formula
- A model considered worthy of imitation
"the American constitution has provided a pattern for many republics"
- Something intended as a guide for making something else
"a pattern for a skirt";
- blueprint, design
- The path that is prescribed for an aeroplane that is preparing to land at an airport
"the traffic patterns around O'Hare are very crowded"; "they stayed in the pattern until the fog lifted";
- traffic pattern, approach pattern
- Graphical representation (in polar or Cartesian coordinates) of the spatial distribution of radiation from an antenna as a function of angle
- radiation pattern, radiation diagram
- Plan or create according to a model or models
- model
- Form a pattern
"These sentences pattern like the ones we studied before"
Anagrams containing the word pattern