schema

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: sche=ma

CIDE DICTIONARY

schema, n. [G. See Scheme.].

 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.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

schema, n. (pl. schemata or schemas)
1 a synopsis, outline, or diagram.
2 a proposed arrangement.
3 Logic a syllogistic figure.
4 (in Kantian philosophy) a conception of what is common to all members of a class; a general type or essential form.

Etymology

Gk skhema -atos form, figure

THESAURUS

schema

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