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

• Software design pattern, a standard form for a solution to common problems in software design.
  • Architectural pattern, for software architecture
  • Interaction design pattern, used in interaction design / human-computer interaction
• Pattern recognition, in machine learning
• In machine learning, a non-null finite sequence of constant and variable symbols
• Regular expression, often called a pattern

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 book, a book of architectural designs
  • Pattern (architecture), a standard form (pattern language) for a solution to common problems in architecture
  • Software design pattern (see above)
• 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

• Patterns (Kraft Television Theatre), a 1955 live television drama written by Rod Serling
• Patterns (film), a 1956 film based on the TV show
• Patterns, a 1989 novel by Pat Cadigan

Music

• Patterns, a 1975 album by Kiki Dee
• Patterns (album), by Bobby Hutcherson, released in 1980
• Patterns (EP), an EP by Repeater
• Patterns, an alternative title of the Modern Jazz Quartet's album Music from Odds Against Tomorrow
• "Patterns" (Paul Simon song)
• "Patterns", a polka song by "Weird Al" Yankovic
• Patterns (Small Faces song), 1967

Other uses

• Pattern (devotional), in Irish Catholicism, the devotional practices associated with a patron saint
• Patterns II, a pencil and paper game designed by Sid Sackson
• Patterns (video game), a building game for personal computers
• Juggling pattern, a trick performed while juggling

See also

• The Pattern (disambiguation)

1. Wave interference
2. Pattern language (disambiguation)
3. Pattern recognition (disambiguation)
4. The Pattern
5. Test Pattern
6. Social pattern
7. Fly pattern
8. Traffic pattern
9. Mating pattern
10. Cracking pattern
11. Duration
12. Pattern maker
13. Pattern search
14. Template
15. Zebra stripes (disambiguation)
16. Shift pattern
17. Weather systems (disambiguation)
18. Meter (disambiguation)
19. Patternmaking
20. Tuxedo (disambiguation)