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schema |
2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Schema \Sche"ma\, n.; pl {Schemata}, E. {Schemas}. [G. See {Scheme}.] (Kantian Philos.) 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. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: schema n 1: an internal representation of the world; an organization of concepts and actions that can be revised by new information about the world 2: a schematic or preliminary plan [syn: {outline}]
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