Usually means: Repeated design or recurring sequence.
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We found 73 dictionaries that define the word pattern:

General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. pattern: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. pattern: Merriam-Webster
  3. pattern: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. pattern: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. pattern: Collins English Dictionary
  6. pattern: Vocabulary.com
  7. Pattern, pattern: Wordnik
  8. pattern: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. pattern: Wiktionary
  10. pattern: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. pattern: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. pattern: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. pattern: Dictionary.com
  14. pattern (n.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. pattern: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Pattern (The Last Shadow Puppets song), Pattern (architecture), Pattern (casting), Pattern (devotional), Pattern (disambiguation), Pattern (foundry), Pattern (sewing), Pattern, The Pattern (The Chronicles of Amber), The Pattern (band): Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Pattern: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. pattern: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. pattern: Rhymezone
  20. pattern: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. pattern: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. Pattern: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  23. pattern: FreeDictionary.org
  24. pattern: Mnemonic Dictionary
  25. pattern: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. pattern: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology
  2. Technical Glossary of Theatre Terms (No longer online)
  3. Shakespeare Glossary (No longer online)
  4. Pattern: Numismatic Dictionary
  5. Literary Criticism (No longer online)

Business (10 matching dictionaries)
  1. pattern: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)
  3. pattern: Webster's New World Finance & Investment Dictionary
  4. INVESTORWORDS (No longer online)
  5. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  6. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)
  7. Pattern: Investopedia
  8. pattern: Legal dictionary
  9. Pattern: Financial dictionary
  10. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. pattern: Dictionary of Algorithms and Data Structures
  2. Webopedia (No longer online)
  3. pattern: Encyclopedia

Medicine (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. pattern: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  4. pattern: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. pattern: Idioms

Religion (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Postmodern Bible Dictionary (No longer online)

Science (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Archaeology Wordsmith (No longer online)
  2. Drug Discovery and Development (No longer online)
  3. Pattern: Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics
  4. Glossary of Avian Terms For Use in Avian Conservation Biology (No longer online)

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. pattern, pattern: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. pattern: Urban Dictionary

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Hickok Sports Glossaries (No longer online)

Tech (15 matching dictionaries)
  1. Book Binding (No longer online)
  2. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  3. pattern: Lighting Design Glossary
  4. Glossary of Composite Terms (No longer online)
  5. pattern: Construction deterioration & building durability glossary
  6. Glossary of video terms (No longer online)
  7. K & A glossary (No longer online)
  8. Popular Cross Stitch Terms (No longer online)
  9. pattern: Chapters in the Sky
  10. PATTERN: Industry Terms for Fiberglass
  11. pattern: Coin Collecting
  12. Urban Conservation Glossary (No longer online)
  13. Rapid Prototyping Glossary (No longer online)
  14. Pattern: Stay Sharp
  15. pattern: Construction deterioration & building durability glossary

(Note: See patterned as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  Model, example.
noun:  Something from which a copy is made; a model or outline.
noun:  Someone or something seen as an example to be imitated; an exemplar.
noun:  (now rare) A copy.
noun:  (now only numismatics) A sample; of coins, an example which was struck but never minted.
noun:  A representative example.
noun:  (US) The material needed to make a piece of clothing.
noun:  (textiles) The paper or cardboard template from which the parts of a garment are traced onto fabric prior to cutting out and assembling.
noun:  (metalworking, dated) A full-sized model around which a mould of sand is made, to receive the melted metal. It is usually made of wood and in several parts, so as to be removed from the mould without damage.
noun:  (computing) A text string containing wildcards, used for matching.
noun:  (software engineering, in compounds) A design pattern.
noun:  Coherent or decorative arrangement.
noun:  A design, motif or decoration, especially formed from regular repeated elements.
noun:  A naturally-occurring or random arrangement of shapes, colours etc. which have a regular or decorative effect.
noun:  The given spread, range etc. of shot fired from a gun.
noun:  A particular sequence of events, facts etc. which can be understood, used to predict the future, or seen to have a mathematical, geometric, statistical etc. relationship.
noun:  (linguistics) An intelligible arrangement in a given area of language.
noun:  (computing, music) A sequence of notes, percussion etc. in a tracker module, usable once or many times within the song.
noun:  (cellular automata) A configuration of cells in a cellular automaton universe.
noun:  (MLE) Any arrangement or agreement, or way of conducting business.
noun:  (Singapore, informal) A wont or habit to cause an annoyance or bother; to stir up trouble
noun:  (Ireland, Roman Catholicism) The devotions that take place within a parish on the feast day of the patron saint of that parish.
verb:  To apply a pattern.
verb:  To make or design (anything) by, from, or after, something that serves as a pattern; to copy; to model; to imitate.
verb:  To follow an example.
verb:  To fit into a pattern.
verb:  (transitive) To serve as an example for.
verb:  (hunting, transitive) To observe an animal closely over time in order to discern its habitual movements and behaviours.
verb:  (MLE) To arrange, to organise, to fix.
verb:  To assault.
verb:  To teach someone a lesson.
verb:  To have sex with.
verb:  To arrange the sale or supply of something, especially illegal drugs.
verb:  To do or perform an activity
adjective:  Of or in accordance with a usual pattern, or type; model; ideal.

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