Definition of Schema

1. Noun. An internal representation of the world; an organization of concepts and actions that can be revised by new information about the world.


2. Noun. A schematic or preliminary plan.
Exact synonyms: Outline, Scheme
Generic synonyms: Plan, Program, Programme
Derivative terms: Outline, Schematic, Schematize, Schematic, Schematize, Scheme

Definition of Schema

1. n. An outline or image universally applicable to a general conception, under which it is likely to be presented to the mind; as, five dots in a line are a schema of the number five; a preceding and succeeding event are a schema of cause and effect.

Definition of Schema

1. Noun. An outline or image universally applicable to a general conception, under which it is likely to be presented to the mind. ¹

2. Noun. (databases) A formal description of the structure of a database: the names of the tables, the names of the columns of each table, and the type and other attributes of each column. (And similarly for the descriptive information of other database-like structures, such as XML files.) ¹

3. Noun. (logic) A formula in the language of an axiomatic system, in which one or more schematic variables appear, which stand for any term or subformula of the system, which may or may not be required to satisfy certain conditions. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Schema

1. a generalized diagram or plan [n -MATA or -MAS]

Medical Definition of Schema

1. 1. A plan, outline, or arrangement. Synonym: scheme. 2. In sensorimotor theory, the organised unit of cognitive experience. Origin: G. Schema, shape, form (05 Mar 2000)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Schema

scheele's green
scheelin
scheelite
scheelites
scheelium
scheie's syndrome
scheik
scheiks
schelium
schellies
schellum
schellums
schelly
schelm
schelms
schema (current term)
schemaless
schemalike
schemas
schemat
schemata
schematic
schematic drawing
schematic eye
schematic variable
schematically
schematics
schematisation
schematise
schematism

Literary usage of Schema

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Thought and Things: A Study of the Development and Meaning of Thought, Or by James Mark Baldwin (1906)
"The term schema suggests, of Term uaed course, and is suggested by, ... The first of them may be called the " schema as Selective Meaning," and the latter ..."

2. Works of Thomas Hill Green by Thomas Hill Green, Richard Lewis Nettleship (1890)
"This schema is described as ... form of intuition—which is what a ' schema' according to Kant is—and thus how a filling of time should be a schema at all. ..."

3. The Monist by Hegeler Institute (1894)
""The schema of the reciprocal interaction of two substances manifest in their ... "The schema of that which is possible is that the synthesis of different ..."

4. The Philosophy of Kant Explained by John Watson (1908)
"Expressed in terms of time, the category becomes the schema of possibility. ... The schema of possibility, therefore, is the idea of that which is ..."

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