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n. A diagrammatic representation; an outline or model.

n. Psychology A pattern imposed on complex reality or experience to assist in explaining it, mediate perception, or guide response.

n. An outline or image universally applicable to a general conception, under which it is likely to be presented to the mind.

n. A formal description of the structure of a database: the names of the tables, the names of the columns of each table, and the type and other attributes of each column. (And similarly for the descriptive information of other database-like structures, such as XML files.)

n. A formula in the language of an axiomatic system, in which one or more schematic variables appear, which stand for any term or subformula of the system, which may or may not be required to satisfy certain conditions.

n. An outline or image universally applicable to a general conception, under which it is likely to be presented to the mind.

n. A diagram, or graphical representation, of certain relations of a system of things, without any pretense to the correct representation of them in other respects; in the Kantian philosophy, a product of the imagination intermediate between an image and a concept. being intuitive, and so capable of being observed, like the former, and general or quasi-general, like the latter.

n. Scheme; plan; outline; formerly, a geometrical diagram.

n. In logic, a figure of syllogism.

n. In ancient Grammar and rhetoric, a figure; a peculiar construction or mode of expression.

n. In the Gr. Ch., the monastic habit: distinguished as little and great.

n. an internal representation of the world; an organization of concepts and actions that can be revised by new information about the world

n. a schematic or preliminary plan

"Using aGML application schema is clearly not a sufficient condition for interoperability, and only maybe is a necessary condition, but plenty of evidence that it helps. (lots more, but he talks faster than I can type … phew.) 15: 45: JohnLaxton, talking aboutGeoSciML v2: an interchange and mark-up language for geologic information."

internal representation    mental representation    representation    programme    plan    program   

pedal schema    transcendental schema   

schemata   

schemat    axiom schema   

template    metadata    database    cache    audit    password    format    protocol    browser    directory