The phrase "a kind of pattern" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when describing something that resembles or shares characteristics with a specific pattern, but is not exactly the same.
Example: "The artist's work exhibits a kind of pattern that draws the viewer's eye and creates a sense of rhythm."
Alternatives: "a type of pattern" or "a sort of pattern".
Fault diagnosis is essentially a kind of pattern recognition.
A result is a kind of Pattern and Decorative painting with new things added, beyond the carpet references.
Event-based sequences are a kind of pattern based on temporal associations with two essential characteristics: they are syntactically simple and have a great expressive power.
In Louisiana, where some mildly legitimate cultural basis can actually be found for some of the festivals, there is a kind of pattern that transforms an informal local celebration into one of the stops along the route from Fort Lauderdale.
He elongated the image on his computer and what was now printing out before him had a kind of pattern of Benday dots, reminiscent of something Roy Lichtenstein would have made had he created abstract paintings.
'I think,' Miller had said earlier, 'that when anybody looks back on the portion of our lives we've lived there is a kind of novel that's been written already, a kind of pattern with a kind of sense to it.' Hers is clearly a novel with a happy middle and, one hopes, a happy end.
Mr. Hawkins thinks that the human neocortex, that part of the brain that includes the perception and reasoning functions, itself works as a kind of pattern-seeking and predictive system.
Tessellation is a kind of patterning in which the units cover a surface without gaps or overlaps — a checkerboard, for example.
They provide a kind of pattern-coordination, not a coordination-of-detail, amongst individuals' actions and activities (Moroni 2007).
For example, a company with hundreds of thousands of customer records, some of which show cancellations, can learn from the experience encoded in this data -- a kind of pattern-detection -- to discover which combinations of factors about a customer makes the individual much more likely than average to cancel.
It has been hypothesized that a new encounter with one of the previously bound features will reactivate the other features in the associated object file according to a kind of pattern-completion process.
