Pattern (disambiguation)

A pattern is an original object used to make copies, or a set of repeating objects in a decorative design and in other disciplines.

Pattern, patterns, or patterning may also refer to:

Mathematics, science, and technology

Computing

Other

  • Airfield traffic pattern, the traffic flow immediately surrounding a runway
  • Design pattern, a standard form for a solution to common problems in design
  • Pattern formation, the processes and mechanisms by which patterns such as the stripes of animals form; also, a science dealing with outcomes of self-organisation
  • Pattern language, a structured method of describing good design practices
  • Pattern theory, a mathematical formalism to describe knowledge of the world as patterns
  • Patterns in nature, the visible regularities of form found in nature and explained by science
  • Pedagogical patterns
  • In ethnomethodology, a (generally non-rigid) routine

Manufacturing

  • Multiple patterning, a class of technologies for manufacturing integrated circuits
  • Pattern (casting), a replica of the object to be cast
  • Pattern coin, a coin struck to test a new design, alloy, or method of manufacture
  • Pattern (sewing), the original garment, or a paper template, from which other garments are copied and produced

Fiction

Music

Other uses

See also

  • The Pattern (disambiguation)
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