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

• Airfield traffic pattern, the traffic flow immediately surrounding a runway
• Design pattern, a formal way of documenting a solution to a design problem
• Pattern (architecture), an approach to defining interrelated architectural problems and solutions
• Pattern formation, 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
• Pedagogical patterns
• A regular expression, often called a pattern
• Software design pattern
• In machine learning, a non-null finite sequence of constant and variable symbols
• 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
• The Pattern, a powerful magical maze in The Chronicles of Amber novels

Music

• Patterns, a 1975 album by Kiki Dee
• Patterns (album), by Bobby Hutcherson, released in 1980
• "Patterns" (song), by Simon & Garfunkel
• "Patterns", a 1967 song by the Small Faces
• The Pattern (band), an American rock band

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