Sentence examples for pattern means that from inspiring English sources

The absence of such a growth pattern means that no grain boundaries arise between planes of different orientation, and therefore there are no barriers that might prevent defects such as cracks from extending quickly through the material.

London's underground networks—including the Tube, but also sewers, various government tunnels and oddities such as the Royal Mail railway must be negotiated.The city's medieval street pattern means that buildings cannot always have straightforward 90-degree corners.

Paradoxically, this pattern means that winter conditions melt more of the ice shelf than does summer.

This pattern means that tree height is increased with increasing DBH.

A scale-free search pattern means that regardless of the scale the searching pattern will not differ and will present the same fractal patterns regardless of the range over which they are viewed (Noah et al. 2013).

The revelation that both OsNCED3 and OsNCED4 are expressed in rice seeds in an overlapping pattern means that further assays are needed to understand how these genes work together to control ABA biosynthesis in rice seeds.

As described elsewhere, culling-induced changes in badger numbers and movement patterns mean that culling which is small-scale, patchy, short-term or asynchronous is very unlikely to provide comparable reductions in the incidence of cattle TB and could well prompt increases [8], [9], [10], [15], [21], [23], [24].

The darkish material and the preference for embroidery rather than a woven pattern mean that the character must be a woman".

This stimulus/response pattern meant that the cold activation threshold (i.e. the temperature at which firing began in response to cooling) for these afferents could not be easily determined.

Greater pressure on water resources, due to a growing population, increasing per person usage and changing weather patterns, means that even without a drought, the situation is unsustainable.

The widely cited culprit for these discounts is the game's location (New Jersey) — or, more precisely, the predicted game-time temperature at that location, currently expected to be in the high thirties for kickoff, at 6 30 P.M., which, considering recent local weather patterns, means that a warm front must be coming.