| pattern [`pad·ǝrn] AEROSPACE ENGINEERING The flight path flown by an aircraft, or prescribed to be flown, as in making an approach to a landing. ENGINEERING A form designed and used as a model for making things. GRAPHIC ARTS A design or form. ORDNANCE The distribution of a series of shots fired from one gun or a battery of guns under conditions as nearly identical as possible, the points of impact of the projectiles being dispersed about a point called the center of impact. |