approach pattern

1. 1.

   the path that is prescribed for an airplane that is preparing to land at an airport

   “the traffic patterns around O'Hare are very crowded”

   “they stayed in the pattern until the fog lifted”

   Synonymstraffic patternpattern

   Broaderpath

   Partsapproach path

Questions about approach pattern

What does approach pattern mean?

approach pattern means "the path that is prescribed for an airplane that is preparing to land at an airport".

What is another word for approach pattern?

Close synonyms include traffic pattern, pattern. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is approach pattern a common word?

approach pattern is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.