There are four conjugations in Latin which define patterns of verb inflection.

Each species has well defined patterns of when, and how territory is defined and defended.

Talcott Parsons said in 1951 that ascription defined patterns of differential treatment within a role.

The centuries that could be looked back upon then, were in many ways defined by regional Nordic unity or at least highly intermingled developing patterns.

As our business developed, we found that many things in farming followed unexpected, but clearly defined patterns.

Such clearly defined patterns are to be seen in both social and political, as well as all other systems.

Both methods are used to define patterns on photomasks.

Among these, some fall into more-or-less defined deviant patterns, while others are uniquely irregular.

And they define imperial collecting patterns in only the most general way.

Bunny wasn't telling me a thing I hadn't seen for myself, but she was defining patterns that hadn't registered on me before.