Pattern and Formation

noun

• A perceptual structure.
  • usage: "the composition presents problems for students of musical form"; "a visual pattern must include not only objects but the spaces between them"
  • synonyms: form, shape
• A customary way of operation or behavior.
  • usage: "it is their practice to give annual raises"; "they changed their dietary pattern"
  • synonyms: practice
• A decorative or artistic work.
  • usage: "the coach had a design on the doors"
  • synonyms: design, figure
• Something regarded as a normative example.
  • usage: "the convention of not naming the main character"; "violence is the rule not the exception"; "his formula for impressing visitors"
  • synonyms: convention, normal, rule, formula
• A model considered worthy of imitation.
  • usage: "the American constitution has provided a pattern for many republics"
• Something intended as a guide for making something else.
  • usage: "a blueprint for a house"; "a pattern for a skirt"
  • synonyms: blueprint, design
• The path that is prescribed for an airplane that is preparing to land at an airport.
  • usage: "the traffic patterns around O'Hare are very crowded"; "they stayed in the pattern until the fog lifted"
  • synonyms: traffic pattern, approach pattern
• Graphical representation (in polar or Cartesian coordinates) of the spatial distribution of radiation from an antenna as a function of angle.
  • synonyms: radiation pattern, radiation diagram

verb

• Plan or create according to a model or models.
  • synonyms: model
• Form a pattern.
  • usage: "These sentences pattern like the ones we studied before"

• (n.) A diagram showing the distribution of the pellets of a shotgun on a vertical target perpendicular to the plane of fire.
• (n.) Figure or style of decoration; design; as, wall paper of a beautiful pattern.
• (n.) Anything cut or formed to serve as a guide to cutting or forming objects; as, a dressmaker's pattern.
• (v.t.) To serve as an example for; also, to parallel.
• (n.) Stuff sufficient for a garment; as, a dress pattern.
• (n.) A full-sized model around which a mold 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 mold without injuring it.
• (n.) A part showing the figure or quality of the whole; a specimen; a sample; an example; an instance.
• (v.t.) To make or design (anything) by, from or after, something that serves as a pattern; to copy; to model; to imitate.
• (n.) Anything proposed for imitation; an archetype; an exemplar; that which is to be or is worthy to be, copied or imitated; as, a pattern of a machine.
• (n.) Something made after a model; a copy.

Pattern is a technical chart formation used to make market predictions by following the price movements of securities.

noun

• An arrangement of people or things acting as a unit.
  • usage: "a defensive formation"; "a formation of planes"
• The act of fabricating something in a particular shape.
  • synonyms: shaping
• The act of forming or establishing something.
  • usage: "the constitution of a PTA group last year"; "it was the establishment of his reputation"; "he still remembers the organization of the club"
  • synonyms: constitution, establishment, organization, organisation
• Geology) the geological features of the earth.
  • synonyms: geological formation
• A particular spatial arrangement.
• Natural process that causes something to form.
  • usage: "the formation of gas in the intestine"; "the formation of crystals"; "the formation of pseudopods"
• Creation by mental activity.
  • usage: "the formation of sentences"; "the formation of memories"

• (n.) The act of giving form or shape to anything; a forming; a shaping.
• (n.) The manner in which a thing is formed; structure; construction; conformation; form; as, the peculiar formation of the heart.
• (n.) The arrangement of a body of troops, as in a square, column, etc.
• (n.) A substance formed or deposited.
• (n.) Mineral deposits and rock masses designated with reference to their origin; as, the siliceous formation about geysers; alluvial formations; marine formations.
• (n.) A group of beds of the same age or period; as, the Eocene formation.

(DoD, NATO) An ordered arrangement of two or more ships, units, or aircraft proceeding together under a commander.
(DoD, NATO) An ordered arrangement of troops and/or vehicles for a specific purpose.