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schematize

American  
[skee-muh-tahyz] / ˈski məˌtaɪz /
especially British, schematise

verb (used with object)

schematized, schematizing
  1. to reduce to or arrange according to a scheme.


schematize British  
/ ˈskiːməˌtaɪz /

verb

  1. (tr) to form into or arrange in a scheme

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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Etymology

Origin of schematize

First recorded in 1640–50, schematize is from the Greek word schēmatízein to form. See scheme, -ize

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"These interactions can be schematized with simple rules, but the results of their collective action are sometimes really unpredictable."

From Salon Aug. 17, 2023

When arguments have structure, they rely on a form that captures a specific manner of reasoning, such that the reasoning can be schematized.

From Textbooks Jun. 15, 2022

The Lego bricks the kids use in their projects are all schematized along these criteria.

From Forbes Oct. 9, 2012

In Iceberg, 1984, which depicts a dreadful shard of whiteness on an equally dreadful blackness, his cult of the isolated fragment serves a schematized vision of landscape -- obstinate, grand and pessimistic.

From Time Magazine Archive

He presents a schematized picture of reality which, like an engineer's diagram, leaves out the cloying details of the object it is supposed to represent.

From John Dewey's logical theory by Howard, Delton Thomas

Whenever Moers stops schematizing long enough to let her consider able critical acumen focus on specific works, she produces fresh, provocative insights into the workings of particular female imaginations.

From Time Magazine Archive

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

From Kant's Theory of Knowledge by Prichard, Harold Arthur

Again, the process of schematizing, although introduced simply as a process by which an individual is to be subsumed indirectly under a conception, is assumed in the passage quoted to be a process of synthesis.

From Kant's Theory of Knowledge by Prichard, Harold Arthur

In the third place, the schema presupposes the corresponding conception and the process of schematizing directly brings the manifold of perception under the conception.

From Kant's Theory of Knowledge by Prichard, Harold Arthur

Pending these futile negotiations Schiller worked with great zest upon 'Demetrius ',—reading, excerpting, examining maps and pictures, schematizing, balancing possibilities, and so forth.

From The Life and Works of Friedrich Schiller by Thomas, Calvin

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