Hypertext Webster Gateway: "schema"
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) 1.7 (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 [syn: {scheme}]
2: a schematic or preliminary plan [syn: {outline}, {scheme}]
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