schema

[ skee-muh ]

noun

, plural sche·ma·ta [skee, -m, uh, -t, uh, skee-, mah, -t, uh, ski-], sche·mas.

1. a diagram, plan, or scheme.

   Synonyms: model, framework, outline

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

   A schema provides the basis by which someone relates to the events they experience.

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.

schema

/ ˈskiːmə /

noun

1. a plan, diagram, or scheme
2. (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. 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 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

Word History and Origins

Origin of schema¹

First recorded in 1790–1800; from Greek schêma “form, shape, appearance”

Word History and Origins

Origin of schema¹

C19: from Greek: form

Example Sentences

You can also implement schema markup SEO best practices to provide more information about your site to the search engines and rank higher.

From Search Engine Watch

When you use event schema markup, you do not have to create two separate experiences to optimize for text and voice search.

From Search Engine Watch

In line with getting higher CTR, your webpages that have event schema markup implemented can also enjoy higher traffic.

From Search Engine Watch

Google’s hoping the schema catches on with other ad sellers.

From Search Engine Land

That is why it’s so important to boost your content efforts with schema markups.

From Search Engine Watch

In this urban schema, family, long the basic unit of society, becomes peripheral.

From The Daily Beast

Even less may a logical schema of this sort be regarded as representing a universal law of development.

From Project Gutenberg

In the first place, the schema is a conception which relates not to the reality apprehended but to us.

From Project Gutenberg

Yet, on Kant's general account of a schema, the schematizing must actually bring a manifold under the corresponding conception.

From Project Gutenberg

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

From Project Gutenberg

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

From Project Gutenberg