General talk about software patterns

[Al Boldi <a1426z AT gawab.com>]

Greetings!

I am new to patterns, and after reviewing some definitions, I would like to 
suggest another way of expressing the pattern definition:

A pattern is the abstraction of a context problem to yield a general 
solution.

Or in other words:
A pattern is the act of arriving from a specific situation to a general 
solution by abstracting its problem.

Or in other words:
A specific situation has a problem, abstracting this problem yields a general 
solution, while the act of arriving from the specific situation to a general 
solution is called a pattern.


Is this a correct interpretation?

Thanks!

--
Al