To form a patternation

simple past tense and past participle of patternate

Having a patternation

Third-person singular simple present indicative form of patternate

present participle of patternate

(aviation) A path taken by an aircraft waiting to land. / (idiomatic) Any failure to advance; useless or unproductive activity.

(music) Foreground details, such as rhythmic units or rhythmic gestures, as projected against a background metric structure.

(computing, object-oriented computing) A structural design pattern in which an object contains no pointers to data type methods.

(architecture, computing, design) A formal way of documenting a general reusable solution to a design problem in a particular field of expertise.

(anatomy) All the features of the skin, feathers, etc. of an animal that are arranged in designs; especially, the configuration of epidermal ridges (dermatoglyphics) characteristic of primates.