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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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