scheme
/skiːm/
A systematic plan of future action; A plot or secret, devious plan; An orderly combination of related parts; A chart or diagram of a system or object
- plural
- schemes
Meanings
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A systematic plan of future action
Do you get this scheme?
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Further pilot schemes are already planned.
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A plot or secret, devious plan
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An orderly combination of related parts
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A chart or diagram of a system or object
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An artful deviation from the ordinary arrangement of wordsrare
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A representation of the aspects of the celestial bodies for any moment or at a given eventrare
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A mathematical structure that generalizes the notion of an algebraic variety in several ways, such as taking account of multiplicities and allowing “varieties” defined over any commutative ring. Formally, a locally ringed space that admits a covering by open sets, each of which is isomorphic to an affine scheme (i.e. the spectrum of some commutative ring)rare
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A council housing estaterare
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Part of a uniform resource identifier indicating the protocol or other purpose, such as http: or news:rare
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A portfolio of pension plans with related benefits comprising multiple independent membersrare