Schemas

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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.
     [1913 Webster]