pattern matching
noun
The process of identifying, analysing, and interpreting the presence of comparable patterns in objects, events, situations, etc.; (Computing ) the use of wildcards or other techniques to detect similar strings of characters, especially in searching for similar types of file, etc.
Origin
1960s.
- scissile
- scission
- scissiparity
- scissiparous
- scissor
- scissor beak
- scissorbill
- scissor bird
- scissor cut
- scissorer
- scissor-fashion
- scissor-grinder
- scissor hold
- scissor jack
- scissor kick
- scissor leg
- scissor-legged
- scissor lift
- scissor-like
- scissor man
- scissors
- scissors and paste
- scissors beak
- scissors-bird
- scissors crisis