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Definition of Patterns
1. pattern [v] - See also: pattern
Lexicographical Neighbors of Patterns
Literary usage of Patterns
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. South Eastern Reporter by West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, West Publishing Company, South Carolina Supreme Court (1913)
"It was further provided that additional patterns would be furnished from time to
time as ordered by the purchaser. The contract recited: "Commence these ..."
2. Science of Fingerprints: Classification and Uses (1988)
"The patterns may be further divided into sub-groups by means of the smaller
differences existing between the patterns in the same general group. ..."
3. Field Geology by Frederic Henry Lahee (1917)
"On the maps of the US Geological Survey certain colors and patterns have a definite
... "patterns composed of parallel straight lines are used to represent ..."
4. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1918)
"Aniline black being a product of the oxidation of aniline, patterns in this color
on a white ground are obtained by printing a thickened solution of aniline ..."
5. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"Other colours wore aleo used in very minute patterns, bnt the simple bine and
... Grey stoneware, richly decorated with delicate stamped patterns in relief, ..."
6. Manual of Mental and Physical Tests: A Book of Directions Compiled with by Guy Montrose Whipple, ( (1914)
"His test with these pupils in an elementary school, when four series of 7-spot,
one series of S-spot and one of 9-spot patterns were used, yielded for boys ..."
7. A Practical Treatise on Metallurgy: Adapted from the Last German Edition of by Bruno Kerl, William Crookes, Ernst Otto Röhrig (1869)
"For this purpose the coal is comminuted either by grinding or pounding, or by
rotation in an iron cask movable round its axis.t patterns and Cores. ..."
8. 20th Century Bookkeeping and Accounting: A Treatise on Modern Bookkeeping by James Williams Baker (1918)
"If closed direct, the entry is written with red ink; if closed by a journal entry,
it is written with black ink. patterns ACCOUNT. § 331. ..."
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