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schema

Pronounced "skee-mah." The definition of a data structure such as a database or XML file. Schemas describe the data elements and their interrelationships. See database schema and XML schema.

schema
1. (in the philosophy of Kant) a rule or principle that enables the understanding to apply its categories and unify experience
2. 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
3. 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.
schema [′skē·mə]
(computer science)
A logical description of the data in a data base, including definitions and relationships of data.


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