traffic pattern

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noun

Aeronautics. a system of courses about an airfield that aircraft are assigned to fly when taking off, landing, or preparing to land.

any systematic movement of people or vehicles: The kitchen was designed to accommodate the family's traffic pattern.

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How to use traffic pattern in a sentence

Computers monitoring streams of electrical activity, picked up by a brain implant or a removable electrode cap, learn to recognize how the traffic pattern changes when a person makes an intended limb movement.
Can Machines Control Our Brains?|R. Douglas Fields|May 17, 2021|Quanta Magazine
These are spots where traffic patterns collide, and the tens of thousands of ships underway on the world’s oceans at any given moment come together in tightly managed traffic schemes.
The Blocked Suez Canal Isn't the Only Waterway the World Should Be Worried About|James Stavridis|March 29, 2021|Time
While the overall traffic patterns remain the same, looking at individual pages was quite interesting.
Some early observations on the Google December core update|Marie Haynes|December 24, 2020|Search Engine Land
American Vogue reported similar traffic patterns as its fellow international sites in May, according to Anna-Lisa Yabsley, executive director of content strategy.
How Vogue’s international approach to audience data helped it reach record readers|Kayleigh Barber|December 18, 2020|Digiday

The Northern Virginia operations were severely affected by changes in traffic patterns during the pandemic — more so than Transurban’s operations in Australia and Montreal.
Northern Virginia toll road operator Transurban to sell half its stake in lanes|Luz Lazo|December 17, 2020|Washington Post
Besides, you still haven't told us where the blazing hells you've been to create such an unusual traffic pattern.
Little Brother|Cory Doctorow
He'd had to wait several minutes in the traffic pattern before being given clearance for anchoring.
Anchorite|Randall Garrett
The speed rose to eighty and steadied as the car settled into its place in the traffic pattern.
Mother America|Sam McClatchie
Nothin' to do but watch for people breakin' traffic pattern.
Anything You Can Do ...|Gordon Randall Garrett

British Dictionary definitions for traffic pattern

traffic pattern

noun

a pattern of permitted lanes in the air around an airport to which an aircraft is restricted

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