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in a holding pattern

1. Literally, of an aircraft, in a continuous, generally circular flight pattern over an airport, as while awaiting clearance to land. Due to a security breach in the airport, our plane was kept in a holding pattern for nearly 45 minutes.

2. In a state or condition of inactivity or stagnancy, leading to little or no change, advancement, or development. Relying solely on derivative sequels, many feel that the video game company has been in a holding pattern in recent years.

holding pattern

1. Literally, of an aircraft, a continuous, generally circular flight pattern over an airport, as while awaiting clearance to land. Due to a security breach in the airport, our plane was kept in a holding pattern for nearly 45 minutes.

2. A state or condition of inactivity or stagnancy, leading to little or no change, advancement, or development. Relying solely on derivative sequels, many feel that the video game company has been in a holding pattern in recent years

pattern (something) on (something else)

To use something as the template or model for the way in which something else is created or developed. The mayor's ambitious social security plan is patterned after a similar system already in place in Sweden. You can pattern your lesson plans after ones from previous teachers.

pattern (something) after (something else)

pattern something after something

to use something as an example or model when making something. I patterned my house after one I saw in England. She wanted to pattern her coat after her mother's.

pattern something on something

to use something as a model for something else. Try to pattern your sales speech on Jane's. She's got it just right. We patterned our approach on Bob's.

pattern on

or pattern after

To form, develop, or found something on the basis of something else; fashion something after something else: The country patterned its legal system on French civil law. These lesson plans are patterned after the ones I learned at graduate school.

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It depends on the formal representation goal for which area of pattern will be formalized (see Table 1).

With the presented facts, we also justify our decision to use ontologies as well as other semantic web technologies to provide a basis, not only for design pattern descriptions, but also for future intelligent services:

Improving design pattern adoption with an ontology-based repository

In this paper, we investigate the problem of summarizing frequent graph patterns. An intuitive idea for summarizing frequent graph patterns is to cluster all graph patterns into a small number of groups, and select a representative graph pattern from each group that can adequately represent any other graph patterns in the same group.

We propose several novel concepts, [delta]-cover graph, jump value and [delta]-jump pattern. One interesting property of [delta]-jump pattern is that any [delta]-jump pattern has to be a representative graph pattern.

Clustering frequent graph patterns

Figure 4 depicts an example pattern with a volume of 0.439 cu.in.

Calculating When Printed Patterns Are Viable for Production: In a study, 15 cast parts and patterns were analyzed to determine general baselines for when printed patterns are cost-effective and time-effective compared to traditional tooling

[UKPRwire, Wed Feb 27 2019] Global Void Pattern Tamper-evident Tapes Market: Overview Tamper-evident packaging is increasing by leaps and bounds globally, as product counterfeiting has become a concerning factor.

Void Pattern Tamper-evident Tapes Market Dynamics, Segments, Insights and Demand, 2018 to 2028

[ClickPress, Mon Feb 25 2019] Global Void Pattern Tamper-evident Tapes Market: Overview Tamper-evident packaging is increasing by leaps and bounds globally, as product counterfeiting has become a concerning factor.

Void Pattern Tamper-evident Tapes Market Segmentation, Industry trends and Development to 2028

Selecting the correct pattern size is confusing and frustrating, especially if your body measures different sizes on the top and bottom or front and back.

JOI OF FITTING: SIZE WISE

Pattern Energy Group, Pattern Energy Group LP, Pattern Energy Group 2 LP, Riverstone Holdings LLC and the Public Sector Pension Investment Board have agreed to a series of strategic initiatives.

Canadian Pension Fund to Buy Nearly 10% of California's Pattern Energy

Pattern Energy is an independent power company listed on the NASDAQ Global Select Market and Toronto Stock Exchange.

United States : Davis Polk Advises Pattern Energys Conflicts Committee on Strategic Initiatives for Expansion of Growth and Capital Opportunities

Obviously colour, furniture and furnishing style also has an impact on the look and feel of a finished room, but the impact a single wall of pattern can have on a room never ceases to amaze me.

DESIGN THERAPY

In general, the first stimulus of the test pattern uses the indefinite circuit state.

Acceleration of fault simulation based on a separate list of faults for each test pattern

Palindromic pattern 121 and Tautonymic pattern 5656

Generic alternades

1, which consists of original array elements to form a sum pattern and augmented antenna (i.e., original array elements with two external edge elements) to form a difference pattern.

An alternative method for difference pattern formation in monopulse antenna

Before students begin their pattern blocks, discuss the difference between random and planned pattern, and demonstrate how, through repetition of line types, sets of lines may be created to produce patterns.