holding pattern
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holding pattern

1. A usually circular pattern flown by aircraft awaiting clearance to land at an airport.

2. Informal A state of waiting or delay; a static situation: environmental groups that wish to put oil exploration into a holding pattern.

holding pattern

(Engineering / Aeronautics) the oval or circular path of an aircraft flying around an airport awaiting permission to land

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Noun	1.	holding pattern - a state of inaction with no progress and no change; "you should go into a holding pattern until he gets over his disappointment" inaction, inactiveness, inactivity - the state of being inactive
	2.	holding pattern - the flight path (usually circular) maintained by an aircraft that is awaiting permission to land air lane, skyway, airway, flight path - a designated route followed by airplanes in flying from one airport to another

Translations

holding pattern n (Aer) → circuito di attesa

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holding pattern (redirected from Holding (aviation))

holding pattern
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