patternless
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English
[edit ]Etymology
[edit ]From pattern + -less . Piecewise doublet of patronless .
Adjective
[edit ]patternless (not comparable )
- Without a decorative pattern.
- 1852 March – 1853 September, Charles Dickens, Bleak House , London: Bradbury and Evans, [...], published 1853, →OCLC:
- "I ought to imitate you, in fact, Mr. Vholes?" says Richard, sitting down again with an impatient laugh and beating the devil's tattoo with his boot on the patternless carpet.
- Without a repeating pattern; random.
- (of certain machinery for cutting shapes) That does not cut around a pattern.
- (in computer science, of an object) That does not belong to a programming or markup pattern.