• a customary way of operation or behavior; "it is their practice to give annual raises"; "they changed their dietary Pattern"
• a decorative or artistic work; "the coach had a design on the doors"
• something regarded as a normative example; "the convention of not naming the main character"; "violence is the rule not the exception"; "his formula for impressing visitors"
• something intended as a guide for making something else; "a blueprint for a house"; "a Pattern for a skirt"
• 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"
• a model considered worthy of imitation; "the American constitution has provided a Pattern for many republics"
• graphical representation (in polar or cartesian coordinates) of the spatial distribution of radiation from an antenna as a function of angle
• 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"
• plan or create according to a model or models
• form a Pattern; "These sentences Pattern like the ones we studied before"

'Pattern' in other languages