title: Pattern (disambiguation)
text: # 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
  