Start with one shape — a ring, a stripe, a tile. Now pull the camera back until you can see that the shape keeps coming back, in order, across the whole surface. That pulling-back is what the -ing adds: patterning is not the shape, it is the repeating arrangement the shapes make. Some surfaces you can see, like a wing or a floor; one of them you cannot, because it is made of what people keep doing.
From the word’s history
From pattern + -ing.
這個字就是 pattern 加上 -ing。pattern 是一再出現的樣式，-ing 把重點推向「正在排、被排出來」。
Wiktionary, "patterning"
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原始詞典資料3 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
patterningnoun
- 1
A pattern; the production of a pattern; the process of forming a pattern.
- […] the tesseræ will form patterns which for us are wholly meaningless, yet the patterning in every case is equally specific and inevitable, implying the pattern above it, implied in that below[…]
- Any system of geometric patterning that covers or fills a surface using a finite set of shapes is considered tiling in a mathematical sense.
- 2
Emulation, following as a model; frequently with after.
- When it is serious it leads to a copying after the manners and personal habits of elders, and a patterning after the style of dress in those whom the children admire.
- His name became synonymous with God himself. Therefore, to be called by his name involved an inseparable commitment to a patterning after his life and a confession of his being.
這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形：
摘錄自 英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary，已精簡格式；依 CC BY-SA 4.0 授權使用，改動後的內容同樣以此授權提供。