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mə noun, plural sche·ma·ta [skee-muh-tuh or, sometimes, skee-mah-tuh, ski-] , sche·mas.
[skee-muh-tuh or, sometimes, skee-mah-tuh, ski-] , sche·mas. 1.
a diagram, plan, or scheme. Synonyms: outline, framework, model.
2.
an underlying organizational pattern or structure; conceptual framework: A schema provides the basis by which someone relates to the events he or she experiences.
Origin:
1790–1800; < Greek schêma form
1790–1800; < Greek schêma form
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schema (ˈskiːmə) ![[Click for IPA pronunciation guide]](http://static.sfdict.com/dictstatic/g/d/dictionary_questionbutton_default.gif) | |
| —n , pl -mata | |
| 1. | a plan, diagram, or scheme |
| 2. | (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 |
| 3. | 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 |
| 4. | 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 |
| [C19: from Greek: form] | |
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Schema
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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.
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In this schema, debt-laden firms and consumers rush to repay loans as credit dries up.
But more often those methods amount only to ways of filling up the screen or parts of the screen with fleshed-out schema.
And those sentences, in turn, are nested within larger schema that-in a lesser writer's hands-might be called paragraphs.
The insurance schema protects the main redistributive work of the programme by obscuring it.
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