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pattern Manufacturing a wooden or metal shape or model used in a foundry to make a mould pattern [′pad·ərn] (aerospace engineering) The flight path flown by an aircraft, or prescribed to be flown, as in making an approach to a landing. (engineering) A form designed and used as a model for making things. (graphic arts) A design or form. (mathematics) An equivalence class of colorings of the elements of a finite set, which are indistinguishable with respect to a group of permutations of the colors. (ordnance) The distribution of a series of shots fired from one gun or a battery of guns under conditions as nearly identical as possible, the points of impact of the projectiles being dispersed about a point called the center of impact. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| The same autistic individuals who score near or below the IQ cutoff for "low functioning" or "mental retardation" achieve average or even superior scores on a test that taps a person's ability to infer rules and to think abstractly about geometric patterns, Mottron's team reports in the August Psychological Science. In the 15th-century Rosslyn Chapel in Scotland, carved angel musicians accompany cubes sequentially arranged across arches and carved with geometric patterns that a father and son team have discovered represent tones. The manhole covers Levergneux photographs are mostly rust and granite colored with natural-seeming geometric patterns. |
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