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Pattern

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Definitions for Pattern

noun
a perceptual structure
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  1. the composition presents problems for students of musical form
  2. a visual pattern must include not only objects but the spaces between them
noun
a customary way of operation or behavior
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  1. it is their practice to give annual raises
  2. they changed their dietary pattern
noun
a decorative or artistic work
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  1. the coach had a design on the doors
noun
something regarded as a normative example
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  1. the convention of not naming the main character
  2. violence is the rule not the exception
  3. his formula for impressing visitors
noun
a model considered worthy of imitation
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  1. the American constitution has provided a pattern for many republics
noun
something intended as a guide for making something else
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  1. a blueprint for a house
  2. a pattern for a skirt
noun
the path that is prescribed for an airplane that is preparing to land at an airport
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traffic pattern approach pattern
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  1. the traffic patterns around O'Hare are very crowded
  2. they stayed in the pattern until the fog lifted
noun
graphical representation (in polar or Cartesian coordinates) of the spatial distribution of radiation from an antenna as a function of angle
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radiation pattern radiation diagram
verb
plan or create according to a model or models
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verb
form a pattern
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  1. These sentences pattern like the ones we studied before

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