n. A drawing or sketch showing how a system works at an abstract level.
the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
adj. Of or pertaining to a scheme or a schema.
The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
Of the nature of, or pertaining to, a schema, in any sense; typical; made or done according to some fundamental plan: used in biology in much the same sense as archetypal.
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n. diagram of an electrical or mechanical system
adj. represented in simplified or symbolic form
Word Usage
"During these stories he described each operation on paper in schematic form."