How to pronounce “scheme”

Meaning

• [Noun]
• (rhetoric, obsolete) An artful deviation from the ordinary arrangement of words. [16th–17th c.]
• (astrology) A representation of the aspects of the celestial bodies for any moment or at a given event. [from 17th c.]
• A systematic plan of future action. [from 18th c.]
• A plot or secret, devious plan.
• An orderly combination of related parts.
• A chart or diagram of a system or object.
• (mathematics) 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).
• (UK, chiefly Scotland, colloquial) A council housing estate. [from 20th c.]
• (Internet) Part of a uniform resource identifier indicating the protocol or other purpose, such as http: or news:.
• (UK, pensions) A portfolio of pension plans with related benefits comprising multiple independent members.
• [Verb]
• (intransitive) To plot, or contrive a plan; to manuever.
• (transitive) To plan; to contrive; to manuever.

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