schema

A plan, outline, or model.

A pattern imposed on complex reality or experience to assist in explaining it, mediate perception, or guide response.

A diagram, or graphical representation, of certain relations of a system of things, without any pretense to the correct representation of them in other respects; in the Kantian philosophy, a product of the imagination intermediate between an image and a concept. being intuitive, and so capable of being observed, like the former, and general or quasi-general, like the latter.

Scheme; plan; outline; formerly, a geometrical diagram.

In logic, a figure of syllogism.

In ancient Grammar and rhetoric, a figure; a peculiar construction or mode of expression.

In the Gr. Ch., the monastic habit: distinguished as little and great.

An outline or image universally applicable to a general conception, under which it is likely to be presented to the mind.

An outline or image universally applicable to a general conception, under which it is likely to be presented to the mind.

A formal description of the structure of a database: the names of the tables, the names of the columns of each table, and the type and other attributes of each column. (And similarly for the descriptive information of other database-like structures, such as XML files.)