Pattern (disambiguation)
# 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
