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sche·ma

(skē′mə)

n. pl. sche·ma·ta (skē-mä′tə, skĭ-măt′ə) or sche·mas

1. A plan, outline, or model: a schema for prioritizing vaccinations; a writer's schema for a novel.

2. Psychology A pattern imposed on complex reality or experience to assist in explaining it, mediate perception, or guide response.

[Latin schēma, schēmat-, form; see scheme.]

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schema

(ˈskiːmə)

n, pl -mata (-mətə)

1. a plan, diagram, or scheme

2. (Philosophy) (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. (Psychology) 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) 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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sche•ma

(ˈski mə)

n., pl. sche•ma•ta (ˈski mə tə or, sometimes, skiˈmɑ tə, skɪ-)
sche•mas.

1. a diagram, plan, or scheme.

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

[1790–1800; < Greek schêma form, scheme]

schema

an outline or diagrammatic representation. See also drawing. — schematic, adj.

schema

noun

A method for making, doing, or accomplishing something:

blueprint, design, game plan, idea, layout, plan, project, scheme, strategy.

Translations

schéma

Schema

schema

[ˈskiːmə] N (schemata (pl)) [ˈskiːmətə] → esquema m

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schema

n pl <-ta> → Darstellung f; (Philos) → Schema nt

Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

schema

[ˈskiːmə] n (schemata (pl)) (frm) → schema

Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995

sche·ma

n. esquema, plan, planeamiento.

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In sections on original gestures, articulating processes, and schemata in action, they discuss such aspects as early forms of articulation, language and image as gesture and articulation, habit and the symbolic process, and ancient articulation: antique schemata in modern art and dance.

Symbolic Articulation: Image, Word, and Body Between Action and Schema

This original empirical research compares the negotiation schemata of Finnish and Japanese IT business people.

Cognitive negotiation schemata in the IT industries of Japan and Finland

(2) As Rumelhart explains, "schemata can represent knowledge at all levels-from ideologies and cultural truths to knowledge about the meaning of a particular word, to knowledge about what patterns of excitations are associated with what letters of the alphabet.

Schema theory, hypertext fiction and links

Human memory depends on cumulative schemata in order to operate and make sense of ever changing and varied interaction with the world at large.

Schema Disruption and Identity in Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in the Wonderland

When we read a text, as Keith Oatley states, "we assimilate what we read to the schemata of what we already know.

Humanizing the monsters: a schematic reading of Beowulf

Table 1 outlines each of the early maladaptive schema domains and individual schemata.

Early maladaptive schemas of substance abusers and their intimate partners

We use our schemata (the plural form of schema) to organize information to aid our understanding, remembering, and figuring out what to do (Sternberg, 2006).

Understand schema, understand difference

Artificial Intelligence work on text understanding was drawn on by discourse analysis and reading theory and it provided an insight into the way in which knowledge schemata (i.e.

Noun	1.	schema - an internal representation of the world; an organization of concepts and actions that can be revised by new information about the world scheme internal representation, mental representation, representation - a presentation to the mind in the form of an idea or image
	2.	schema - a schematic or preliminary plan outline, scheme plan, program, programme - a series of steps to be carried out or goals to be accomplished; "they drew up a six-step plan"; "they discussed plans for a new bond issue"