schema Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun an internal representation of the world; an organization of concepts and actions that can be revised by new information about the world
    scheme.
  2. noun a schematic or preliminary plan
    scheme; outline.

WordNet

Sche"ma noun
Etymology
G. See Scheme.
Wordforms
plural Schemata E Schemas
Definitions
  1. (Kantian Philos.) 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.

Webster 1913