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ˈpatternless, a.
[f. pattern n. + -less.]
†a. Unmatched, peerless. Obs.
1613Heywood Silver Age iii. i. Wks. 1874 III. 128 Thy curtesie equals thy actiue power: And thou in both art chiefe and patternelesse.
b. Void of pattern or design; plain, undecorated.
1861D. Cook P. Foster's D. v, Turkey carpets..trodden patternless and threadbare with the use of years. 1878H. S. Wilson Alp. Ascents iv. 133 A room with blank patternless walls.
c. Formless; conforming to, or possessing, no discernible arrangement or pattern.
1960R. Carpenter Greek Sculpture ix. 243 The patternless tangle of shadow in hair and beard. 1963Times 20 May 4/7 Tambling was the man for the quick break and almost stole two more goals near the end to make nonsense of all Sunderland's patternless hammering. 1975Sci. Amer. May 47/2 Clearly a more sensible definition of randomness is required, one that does not contradict the intuitive concept of a ‘patternless’ number. |