Definitions for schema

• Definition
• Anagrams (148)

schema sche·ma

Spelling: [skee-muh]

IPA: /ˈski mə/

Schema is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 148 anagrams from letters in schema (acehms).

Definitions for schema

noun

1. a diagram, plan, or scheme. Synonyms: outline, framework, model.
2. an underlying organizational pattern or structure; conceptual framework:
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.

Origin of schema

First recorded in 1790-1800, schema is from the Greek word schêma form

Examples for schema

That concept adheres to the schema of those who affirm the universe to be made: Naturalism excludes it.

Number is strictly not the schema of quantity as such, but of totality.

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

Hence the schema is properly only the phenomenon, or the sensuous conception of an object in harmony with the category.

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

The psychological idea is, therefore, meaningless and inapplicable, except as the schema of a regulative conception.

The schema of cause and of the causality of a thing is the real which, when posited, is always followed by something else.

Now we must assume that the schema of quantity is really what Kant says it is, viz.

These do not proceed according to the schema of the ordinary play of accident.

The turn of expression is called a Trope, and change of construction is called a schema.