patterning

1. gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of pattern

plural patternings

1. countableuncountableA pattern; the production of a pattern; the process of forming a pattern.

   Any system of geometric patterning that covers or fills a surface using a finite set of shapes is considered tiling in a mathematical sense.

   2015, Kim Williams, Michael J. Ostwald, Architecture and Mathematics from Antiquity to the Future, page 460

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   […] the tesseræ will form patterns which for us are wholly meaningless, yet the patterning in every case is equally specific and inevitable, implying the pattern above it, implied in that below[…]

   1905, William Hurrell Mallock, The Reconstruction of Belief, page 151

   Publications cannot be considered independent data points as required by inferential statistical tests. Nevertheless, such tests are applied, but only as a general aid to testing these hypotheses and to identifying other patterning in the data.

   2023, Simon Mays, “The Macroscopic Study of Human Skeletal Paleopathology” (chapter 2), in The Routledge Handbook of Paleopathology, Routledge, →DOI, →ISBN, page 21

2. countableuncountableEmulation, following as a model; frequently with after.

   When it is serious it leads to a copying after the manners and personal habits of elders, and a patterning after the style of dress in those whom the children admire.

   1916, H.W. Nutt, “Genetic psychology of suggestion as a factor in human behavior”, in Teacher’s Journal, page 793

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   His name became synonymous with God himself. Therefore, to be called by his name involved an inseparable commitment to a patterning after his life and a confession of his being.

   2001, Douglas Webster, A Passion for Christ, page 66