Noun
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.
Source: Webster's dictionaryIn the mythic schema of all relations between men and women, man proposes, and woman is disposed of. Angela Carter
Thus then does the Doctrine of Knowledge, which in its substance is the realisation of the absolute Power of intelligising which has now been defined, end with the recognition of itself as a mere Schema in a Doctrine of Wisdom. Johann Gottlieb Fichte
I am only a Schema of the Schema. Johann Gottlieb Fichte
The physiology of orgasm and penile erection no more explain a culture's sexual schema than the auditory range of the human ear explains its music. Carole Vance
A general characteristic, however, is that the programming language and the database schema use the same type definitions. Source: Internet
A declaration on religious freedom, largely drawn from the "Unity" draft, was made part (Chapter V) of the schema on Ecumenism ; the bishops did not have time to get to it. Source: Internet