patterning

[ pat-er-ning ]

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noun

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

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.

Origin of patterning

First recorded in 1860–65; pattern + -ing¹

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.
These 2021 Biotech Breakthroughs Will Shape the Future of Health and Medicine | Shelly Fan | January 4, 2022 | 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.
Inside the machine that saved Moore’s Law | Clive Thompson | October 27, 2021 | MIT Technology Review
Damselfish species can indeed recognize differences in patterning that is invisible to the human eye.
David Attenborough’s Life in Color - Issue 107: The Edge | Mary Ellen Hannibal | September 29, 2021 | 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.
Sweater weather transports this writer to places like Scotland, Ireland and Norway | Karen Gardiner | December 17, 2020 | Washington Post
We now learn that it has also a definite feeling for patterning on the level of grammatical formation.
Language | Edward Sapir

If there is, the old patterning of sounds can be kept intact only by shifting the old b, d, g sounds in some way.
Language | Edward Sapir
There was a slight increase of heraldic ornament, and a certain amount of foreign diaper patterning on the clothes.
English Costume | Dion Clayton Calthrop
The patterning also varies, occasionally straw of a different colour (black or brown) being introduced.
History of the Fan | George Woolliscroft Rhead
The patterning of the life after its ideal is most seriously undertaken, even to imitation of personal mannerisms.
The Unfolding Life | Antoinette Abernethy Lamoreaux

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