Structures are applicable to people in how a society is as a system organized by a characteristic pattern of relationships.

Each piece on the game moves in a characteristic pattern.

Every gas has a characteristic pattern of mass/charge signals generated by the instrument.

He added, "This is an extreme case, even though it followed a characteristic pattern."

They had been covered with cuts and bruises, in the characteristic pattern of defense wounds.

Recent neuroscientific research, however, is starting to show that there are characteristic patterns of brain activity associated with these states.

The result is a characteristic pattern of light and dark fringes.

The minerals in the rock have a characteristic pattern, using a method known as petrography.

I have observed a characteristic pattern in those whose ways wander far from socially acceptable behavior.

Each smell might stimulate the receptors in a characteristic pattern.