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noun an internal representation of the world; an organization of concepts and actions that can be revised by new information about the world
noun a schematic or preliminary plan
originUnadapted borrowing from Latin schēma, from Ancient Greek σχῆμα (skhêma, “form, shape”). Doublet of scheme.
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