schema

[skee-muh] /ˈski mə/

noun, plural schemata

[skee-muh-tuh or, sometimes, skee-mah-tuh, ski-] /ˈski mə tə or, sometimes, skiˈmɑ tə, skɪ-/ (Show IPA), schemas.

a diagram, plan, or scheme.

an underlying organizational pattern or structure; conceptual framework:

A schema provides the basis by which someone relates to the events he or she experiences.

(in Kantian epistemology) a concept, similar to a universal but limited to phenomenal knowledge, by which an object of knowledge or an idea of pure reason may be apprehended.

Origin

1790-1800; < Greek schêma form

Examples from the web for schema

But more often those methods amount only to ways of filling up the screen or parts of the screen with fleshed-out schema.
College, then, matters not because it creates the social schema or stimulates the nation's economic fluidity.
He starts to draw up a schema showing which stories are best suited to which situations.
In this schema, debt-laden firms and consumers rush to repay loans as credit dries up.
The insurance schema protects the main redistributive work of the programme by obscuring it.
The insurance schema protects the main redistributive work of the programme by obscuring it.
But first, let's apply a clean explanatory schema or three to the print revolution to see how each one fits.
Those developments which might seem to fit into his schema are treated in detail.
And those sentences, in turn, are nested within larger schema that-in a lesser writer's hands-might be called paragraphs.
Creating a historically plausible world, not based on pre-existing historical and cultural schema, isn't economically feasible.

British Dictionary definitions for schema

schema

/ˈskiːmə/

noun (pl) -mata (-mətə)

a plan, diagram, or scheme

(in the philosophy of Kant) a rule or principle that enables the understanding to apply its categories and unify experience: universal succession is the schema of causality

(psychol) a mental model of aspects of the world or of the self that is structured in such a way as to facilitate the processes of cognition and perception

(logic) an expression using metavariables that may be replaced by object language expressions to yield a well-formed formula. Thus A = A is an axiom schema for identity, representing the infinite number of axioms, x = x, y = y, z = z, etc

Word Origin

C19: from Greek: form

Word Origin and History for schema

plural schemata, 1796, in Kantian philosophy ("a product of the imagination intermediary between an image and a concept"), from Greek skhema (see scheme (n.)). Meaning "diagrammatic representation" is from 1890; general sense of "hypothetical outline" is by 1939.

schema in Medicine

schema sche·ma (skē'mə)
n. pl. sche·mas or sche·ma·ta (skē-mä'tə, skĭ-māt'ə)

A diagrammatic representation; an outline or a model.
A pattern imposed on complex reality or experience to assist in explaining it, mediate perception, or guide response.

schema in Technology

1. database schema.
2. axiom schema.
3. XML schema.