patterning

[ pat-er-ning ]

noun

1. a design or decoration formed by the creative arrangement or formation of patterns.
2. the following of a specific pattern of movement, as in a dance or exercise:

   the floor patterning of a folk dance.

3. a system of physical therapy in which a pattern of specific movements is practiced or imposed regularly as a way of improving, restoring, or stimulating muscular coordination, especially in brain-damaged or disabled persons.

Other Words From

• inter·pattern·ing noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of patterning¹

First recorded in 1860–65; pattern + -ing ¹

Example Sentences

With relaxed guidelines, upcoming studies could reveal what happens to a human embryo after implanting into the uterus, and gastrulation—when genetic cues lay out the body’s overall patterning and set the stage for organ development.

From Singularity Hub 

Lithography engineers also developed a technique for patterning and carving away at a chip layer multiple times—what’s known as “multiple patterning”—to produce finer details.

From MIT Technology Review

Damselfish species can indeed recognize differences in patterning that is invisible to the human eye.

From Nautilus

Out of this “awesome collaboration of materials, technologies and skills,” said Sylvia Olsen, author of “Working With Wool,” a book about Cowichan knitting, Coast Salish women created their own distinctive patterning and an industry.

From Washington Post

We now learn that it has also a definite feeling for patterning on the level of grammatical formation.

From Project Gutenberg

If there is, the old patterning of sounds can be kept intact only by shifting the old b, d, g sounds in some way.

From Project Gutenberg

There was a slight increase of heraldic ornament, and a certain amount of foreign diaper patterning on the clothes.

From Project Gutenberg

The patterning also varies, occasionally straw of a different colour (black or brown) being introduced.

From Project Gutenberg

The patterning of the life after its ideal is most seriously undertaken, even to imitation of personal mannerisms.

From Project Gutenberg

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