Definition of "scheme" in английский

noun

1. (rhetoric, obsolete) An artful deviation from the ordinary arrangement of words.

2. (astrology) A representation of the aspects of the celestial bodies for any moment or at a given event.

3. A systematic plan of future action.

4. A plot or secret, devious plan.

5. An orderly combination of related parts.

6. A chart or diagram of a system or object.

   • April 29, 1694, Robert South, A Sermon Preached at Westminster Abbey to draw an exact scheme of Constantinople, or a map of France

7. (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).

8. (UK, chiefly Scotland, colloquial) A council housing estate.

9. (Internet) Part of a uniform resource identifier indicating the protocol or other purpose, such as http: or news:.

10. (UK, pensions) A portfolio of pension plans with related benefits comprising multiple independent members.

verb

1. (intransitive) To plot, or contrive a plan; to manuever.

2. (transitive) To plan; to contrive; to manuever.