pattern

Meanings

• a perceptual structure
  • "a visual pattern must include not only objects but the spaces between them"
• a customary way of operation or behavior
  • "they changed their dietary pattern"
• a decorative or artistic work
• something regarded as a normative example
• 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"
• 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"
• graphical representation (in polar or Cartesian coordinates) of the spatial distribution of radiation from an antenna as a function of angle
• plan or create according to a model or models
• form a pattern
  • "These sentences pattern like the ones we studied before"

Synonyms

approach pattern, blueprint, convention, design, figure, form, formula, model, normal, practice, radiation diagram, radiation pattern, rule, shape, traffic pattern