Lexic.us

Definition of Pattern

1. Noun. A perceptual structure. "A visual pattern must include not only objects but the spaces between them"

2. Verb. Plan or create according to a model or models.

3. Noun. A customary way of operation or behavior. "They changed their dietary pattern"

4. Verb. Form a pattern. "These sentences pattern like the ones we studied before"

5. Noun. A decorative or artistic work. "The coach had a design on the doors"

6. Noun. Something regarded as a normative example. "His formula for impressing visitors"

7. Noun. A model considered worthy of imitation. "The American constitution has provided a pattern for many republics"

8. Noun. Something intended as a guide for making something else. "A pattern for a skirt"

9. Noun. The path that is prescribed for an airplane that is preparing to land at an airport. "They stayed in the pattern until the fog lifted"

10. Noun. Graphical representation (in polar or Cartesian coordinates) of the spatial distribution of radiation from an antenna as a function of angle.

Definition of Pattern

1. n. Anything proposed for imitation; an archetype; an exemplar; that which is to be, or is worthy to be, copied or imitated; as, a pattern of a machine.

2. v. t. To make or design (anything) by, from, or after, something that serves as a pattern; to copy; to model; to imitate.

3. n. A diagram showing the distribution of the pellets of a shotgun on a vertical target perpendicular to the plane of fire.

Definition of Pattern

1. to make according to a prescribed design [v -ED, -ING, -S]

Medical Definition of Pattern

1. 1. Anything proposed for imitation; an archetype; an exemplar; that which is to be, or is worthy to be, copied or imitated; as, a pattern of a machine. "I will be the pattern of all patience." (Shak) 2. A part showing the figure or quality of the whole; a specimen; a sample; an example; an instance. "He compares the pattern with the whole piece." (Swift) 3. Stuff sufficient for a garment; as, a dress pattern. 4. Figure or style of decoration; design; as, wall paper of a beautiful pattern. 5. Something made after a model; a copy. "The patterns of things in the heavens." (Heb. Ix. 23) 6. Anything cut or formed to serve as a guide to cutting or forming objects; as, a dressmaker's pattern. 7. A full-sized model around which a mold of sand is made, to receive the melted metal. It is usually made of wood and in several parts, so as to be removed from the mold without injuring it. A definable characteristic relationship between the members of any set of objects or actions; also, the set having a definable relationship between its members. Thus: the distribution of bomb or shell impacts on a target area, or of bullet holes in a target; a set of traits or actions that appear to be consistent throughout the members of a group or over time within a group, as behavioral pattern, traffic pattern, dress pattern Pattern box, chain, or cylinder, devices, in a loom, for presenting several shuttles to the picker in the proper succession for forming the figure. Pattern card. A set of samples on a card. A count-wheel. Origin: OE. Patron, F. Patron, a patron, also, a pattern. See Patron. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Pattern

patte patted pattee patten patten pattened pattening pattens patter patter

pattered patterer patterers pattering pattern (current term) pattern (current term) pattern-bomb patterned patterned advance patterning

patternings patternless patternmaker patterns pattern formation pattern recognition pattern sensitive epilepsy patters pattes pattie

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