WordNet
n. the path that is prescribed for an airplane that is preparing to land at an airport; "the traffic patterns around O'Hare are very crowded"; "they stayed in the pattern until the fog lifted" [syn: approach pattern, pattern]
Wikipedia
Traffic pattern can refer to
- Information traffic patterns
- Airfield traffic patterns
Usage examples of "traffic pattern".
The President repeated his previous traffic pattern and ended the pacing with a heavy landing in one of the plush swivel chairs emblazoned with the presidential seal.
The red emergency lights and the radio siren had already cleared a hole for him in the traffic pattern and he eased back on the finger throttles as the patrol car sailed over the divider and into the blue traffic lane.
People would begin leaving the motel, complicating the traffic pattern even more.
Shaftoe goes there and analyzes the traffic pattern: to pull into the hotel's horseshoe drive, the cars have to come around a particular corner, just up the street.
He got on a little bus that inched its way through the airport's pathetically constricted traffic pattern and finally let him off at Avis.
With a few quick and ruthless adjustments, Andre shifted Ryan's reservation to suit his favorite customer, moving the seating from a small central table in the main traffic pattern to Natalie's favorite quiet corner booth.
He kept the Dodge well ahead and waited for a clear stretch in the traffic pattern.
Which first meant backtracking the traffic pattern from a known transfer point.