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schema

[ skee-muh ]

noun

, plural sche·ma·ta [skee, -m, uh, -t, uh, skee-, mah, -t, uh, ski-], sche·mas.
  1. a diagram, plan, or scheme.

    Synonyms: model, framework, outline

  2. an underlying organizational pattern or structure; conceptual framework:

    A schema provides the basis by which someone relates to the events they experience.

  3. (in Kantian epistemology) a concept, similar to a universal but limited to phenomenal knowledge, by which an object of knowledge or an idea of pure reason may be apprehended.


schema

/ ˈskiːmə /

noun

  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


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Word History and Origins

Origin of schema1

First recorded in 1790–1800; from Greek schêma “form, shape, appearance”

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Word History and Origins

Origin of schema1

C19: from Greek: form

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Example Sentences

You can also implement schema markup SEO best practices to provide more information about your site to the search engines and rank higher.

When you use event schema markup, you do not have to create two separate experiences to optimize for text and voice search.

In line with getting higher CTR, your webpages that have event schema markup implemented can also enjoy higher traffic.

Google’s hoping the schema catches on with other ad sellers.

That is why it’s so important to boost your content efforts with schema markups.

In this urban schema, family, long the basic unit of society, becomes peripheral.

Even less may a logical schema of this sort be regarded as representing a universal law of development.

In the first place, the schema is a conception which relates not to the reality apprehended but to us.

Yet, on Kant's general account of a schema, the schematizing must actually bring a manifold under the corresponding conception.

The schema is, in itself, always a mere product of the imagination.

The schema of necessity is the existence of an object in all time.

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