simple past tense and past participle of patternate

Having a patternation

To arrange into a pattern

simple past tense and past participle of patternize

Arranged into a pattern

(aviation) A path taken by an aircraft waiting to land. / (idiomatic) Any failure to advance; useless or unproductive activity.

(music) Foreground details, such as rhythmic units or rhythmic gestures, as projected against a background metric structure.

(anatomy) All the features of the skin, feathers, etc. of an animal that are arranged in designs; especially, the configuration of epidermal ridges (dermatoglyphics) characteristic of primates.

(computing, object-oriented computing) A structural design pattern in which an object contains no pointers to data type methods.

an optical effect formed when one family of curves is superposed on another, the lines of the overlapping figures crossing at an ange less than about 45°; the moiré lines are then the locus of the points of intersection