schemas

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schemas - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Schema \Sche"ma\, n.; pl. Schemata, E. Schemas. [G. See
     Scheme.] (Kantian Philos.)
     An outline or image universally applicable to a general
     conception, under which it is likely to be presented to the
     mind; as, five dots in a line are a schema of the number
     five; a preceding and succeeding event are a schema of cause
     and effect.
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