patternation

The act or result of forming a pattern, particularly of a spray from a nozzle.

Noun

  1. The act or result of forming a pattern, particularly of a spray from a nozzle.
    • Therefore, ignoring for the time being patternation and related factors, they had been concerned also […] - 1948, The Journal of the Royal Aeronautical Society, volume 52, page 179:
    • Patternations were done to acquire swath widths for each pressure/height treatment. - 1987, Pesticide Formulations and Application Systems, volume 7, page 160:
    • The names for the patternations in Figure 2.1 indicate shapes and symmetries, of the spray boundaries, but it is not possible to assume how droplet mass flux varies within the cross-section. - 2013, Ghasem G. Nasr,...

Origin

From pattern + -ation.

Forms

patternations