A pattern is a diagram or shape that you can use as a guide when you are making something such as a model or a piece of clothing. cutting out a pattern for trousers
A part showing the figure or quality of the whole; a specimen; a sample; an example; an instance
A coin struck as a trial or test piece for a new design - many times without all final legends, dates, design details, etc - may be struck on different alloys than the final issue
in Semitic and other Afro-Asiatic languages, the arrangement of prefixes, suffixes, consonant-doubling, vowels, and stress in a word formed around a consonantal root
This is used for looking up matching words A pattern can be as simple as a single word but also as complex as a POSIX regular expression The meaning of a pattern depends on the strategy used for matching words
A pattern is the repeated or regular way in which something happens or is done. All three attacks followed the same pattern A change in the pattern of his breathing became apparent
A diagram showing the distribution of the pellets of a shotgun on a vertical target perpendicular to the plane of fire
A pattern is an arbitrary conditional expression against which input is tested If the condition is satisfied, the pattern is said to match the input A typical pattern might compare the input against a regular expression
a model considered worthy of imitation; "the American constitution has provided a pattern for many republics"
Picture a circular pathway, with the entrance on the outer edge of a large circle, maybe the size of a baseball diamond The path winds between glowing lines of power arranged to spiral around and around, toward a small clear zone at the very center Along the way are strange twists and curves and knots Walking the Pattern is a dangerous and difficult task, and a weak of fatigued character could easily die before completing it But, having walked it, one can transport oneself, instantly, anywhere one can imagine
A formation of team members in which they are all in the same position or in alternating positions
the path that is prescribed for an airplane 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"
Analysts and statisticians spend much of their time looking for patterns in data A pattern can be a relationship between two variables Data mining techniques include automatic pattern discovery that makes it possible to detect complicated non-linear relationships in data Patterns are not the same as causality
a perceptual structure; "the composition presents problems for students of musical form"; "a visual pattern must include not only objects but the spaces between them"