noun
(rhetoric, obsolete) An artful deviation from the ordinary arrangement of words.
(astrology) A representation of the aspects of the celestial bodies for any moment or at a given event.
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.
(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.
(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.