Patton

[pat-n]

noun

1. Charley Charlie Patton, 1881–1934, U.S. blues guitarist and singer.

2. George Smith, 1885–1945, U.S. general.

Patton

/ ˈpætən /

noun

1. George Smith. 1885–1945, US general, who successfully developed tank warfare as an extension of cavalry tactics in World War II: captured Palermo, Sicily (1942) and much of France (1944)

Example Sentences

You can get your jollies with a Dave Chappelle special, or by catching Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth trying out his Gen. Patton impression before another group of stone-faced generals, but it’s better to settle on yuks that matter — chortles that provoke as much hope as humor.

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“What that suggests is that the San Andreas earthquake happened very closely in time after the Cascadia earthquake,” said Jason R. Patton, engineering geologist with the California Geological Survey and a co-author of the study.

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Scientists won’t know for sure if big Cascadia earthquakes trigger large northern San Andreas fault earthquakes unless it happens in the future, Patton said.

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Anytime a big earthquake occurs, the Earth’s crust around the ruptured fault gets squeezed and stretched, Patton said.

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Goldfinger and Patton were among the coauthors of a research article published in 2008 in the Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America that found that a big earthquake on the Cascadia subduction zone slightly worsens the seismic stress on the northernmost section of the San Andreas fault.

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