schema
pronunciation
How to pronounce schema in British English:
UK [ˈski:mə]
How to pronounce schema in American English:
US [ˈskimə]
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- Noun:
- an internal representation of the world; an organization of concepts and actions that can be revised by new information about the world
- a schematic or preliminary plan
Word Origin
- schema (n.)
- plural schemata, 1796, in Kantian philosophy ("a product of the imagination intermediary between an image and a concept"), from Greek skhema (see scheme (n.)). Meaning "diagrammatic representation" is from 1890; general sense of "hypothetical outline" is by 1939.
Example
- 1. Cannot use two default namespaces in one schema file .
- 2. Schema theory plays an important role in english reading comprehension .
- 3. This process of applying an existing schema to a new object is what piaget called assimilation .
- 4. Start using xml schema to constrain xml documents .
- 5. Allows end users to implement their own cache item expiration schema .