Schematic
adjective
Relating to or involving a diagram, plan, or drawing.
He sketched a schematic diagram of the system.
Often appears as...
- schematic diagram
- schematic plan
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Technical
adjective
Relating to an oversimplified or symbolic representation.
His schematic view of the conflict ignores its complexities.
Often appears as...
- schematic view
- schematic approach
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Disapproving
Academic
adjective
Relating to or involving a diagram, plan, or drawing.
He sketched a schematic diagram of the system.
Often appears as...
- schematic diagram
- schematic plan
Usage tips
Technical
adjective
Relating to an oversimplified or symbolic representation.
His schematic view of the conflict ignores its complexities.
Often appears as...
- schematic view
- schematic approach
Usage tips
Disapproving
Academic
Definition 1 of 2
Pro Tip 1/3Technical Uses
Schematic is often used in technical or engineering settings to describe detailed diagrams.
The technician consulted the schematic to repair the circuit board.
Pro Tip 2/3Visual Simplicity
Schematics simplify complex objects or systems into basic shapes and lines for easier understanding.
Students used a schematic to understand the human digestive system.
Pro Tip 3/3Not Artistic
Unlike artistic drawings, schematics focus on function and information rather than aesthetics.
The engineer's schematic focused on the machine's design, not on being visually appealing.
Pro Tip 1/3Technical Uses
Schematic is often used in technical or engineering settings to describe detailed diagrams.
The technician consulted the schematic to repair the circuit board.
Pro Tip 2/3Visual Simplicity
Schematics simplify complex objects or systems into basic shapes and lines for easier understanding.
Students used a schematic to understand the human digestive system.
Pro Tip 3/3Not Artistic
Unlike artistic drawings, schematics focus on function and information rather than aesthetics.
The engineer's schematic focused on the machine's design, not on being visually appealing.
Pro Tip 1/3Technical Uses
Schematic is often used in technical or engineering settings to describe detailed diagrams.
The technician consulted the schematic to repair the circuit board.
Pro Tip 2/3Visual Simplicity
Schematics simplify complex objects or systems into basic shapes and lines for easier understanding.
Students used a schematic to understand the human digestive system.
Pro Tip 3/3Not Artistic
Unlike artistic drawings, schematics focus on function and information rather than aesthetics.
The engineer's schematic focused on the machine's design, not on being visually appealing.
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Could tissue engineering...
a chip generating tissues of predictable density and behaviors the second piece and will be really key towards getting these models to be adopted for drug discovery and this is a schematic of a bioreactor we're developing in our lab to help engineer tissues in a more modular scalable way going forward
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Lisa Margonelli: The...
on the molecules on the oil. One of the things that we also need to do, is we need to try to not kind of fool ourselves into thinking that you can have a green world, before you reduce the amount of oil that we use. We need to focus on reducing the oil. What you see in this top drawing is a schematic
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Nina Tandon: Could...
on a chip. Generating tissues of predictable density and behavior is the second piece, and will be really key towards getting these models to be adopted for drug discovery. And this is a schematic of a bioreactor we're developing in our lab to help engineer tissues in a more modular, scalable way.
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Clay Shirky: Institutions...
to give you that little slideshow. Now, what hard problem is being solved here? And it's -- in the most schematic possible view, it's a coordination problem, right? There are a large number of people on the Internet, a very small fraction of them have photos of the Mermaid Parade.
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Why we make bad...
Well, of course, I went to the theater to see the play. What does the loss of 20 dollars along the way have to do? Now, just in case you're not getting it, here's a schematic of what happened, OK? Along the way, you lost something. In both cases, it was a piece of paper.
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3 ways the brain creates...
help us make meaning in very different ways. So what can we learn about this? How can we apply this insight? Well, again, the schematic view is that the eye visually interrogates what we look at. The brain processes this in parallel, the figments of information
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Making sense of maps -...
principles of schematic diagram design and changed the way public transport maps are designed forever now the very key to the success of this map is in the omission of important less important information and in the extreme
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The Factory PIPE Think Like...
In this case, you can have Hedge list every step in the headers of both the rows and columns. Then he can go through the rows one at a time. On the schematic, what points to mix? Both shake and titrate.
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A teen scientist's...
it also had to be low-cost, as I was designing it and paying for it myself. It also had to be mass-manufacturable, because I wanted it to be made anywhere, for anyone. Thus, I drafted up a schematic.
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Sir Martin Rees: Earth...
On that schematic picture, a sort of time-lapse picture, we're halfway. And it'll be another six billion before that happens, and any remaining life on Earth is vaporized.
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Could tissue engineering...
a chip generating tissues of predictable density and behaviors the second piece and will be really key towards getting these models to be adopted for drug discovery and this is a schematic of a bioreactor we're developing in our lab to help engineer tissues in a more modular scalable way going forward
Video examples
Lisa Margonelli: The...
on the molecules on the oil. One of the things that we also need to do, is we need to try to not kind of fool ourselves into thinking that you can have a green world, before you reduce the amount of oil that we use. We need to focus on reducing the oil. What you see in this top drawing is a schematic
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Nina Tandon: Could...
on a chip. Generating tissues of predictable density and behavior is the second piece, and will be really key towards getting these models to be adopted for drug discovery. And this is a schematic of a bioreactor we're developing in our lab to help engineer tissues in a more modular, scalable way.
Video examples
Clay Shirky: Institutions...
to give you that little slideshow. Now, what hard problem is being solved here? And it's -- in the most schematic possible view, it's a coordination problem, right? There are a large number of people on the Internet, a very small fraction of them have photos of the Mermaid Parade.
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Why we make bad...
Well, of course, I went to the theater to see the play. What does the loss of 20 dollars along the way have to do? Now, just in case you're not getting it, here's a schematic of what happened, OK? Along the way, you lost something. In both cases, it was a piece of paper.
Video examples
3 ways the brain creates...
help us make meaning in very different ways. So what can we learn about this? How can we apply this insight? Well, again, the schematic view is that the eye visually interrogates what we look at. The brain processes this in parallel, the figments of information
Video examples
Making sense of maps -...
principles of schematic diagram design and changed the way public transport maps are designed forever now the very key to the success of this map is in the omission of important less important information and in the extreme
Video examples
The Factory PIPE Think Like...
In this case, you can have Hedge list every step in the headers of both the rows and columns. Then he can go through the rows one at a time. On the schematic, what points to mix? Both shake and titrate.
Video examples
A teen scientist's...
it also had to be low-cost, as I was designing it and paying for it myself. It also had to be mass-manufacturable, because I wanted it to be made anywhere, for anyone. Thus, I drafted up a schematic.
Video examples
Sir Martin Rees: Earth...
On that schematic picture, a sort of time-lapse picture, we're halfway. And it'll be another six billion before that happens, and any remaining life on Earth is vaporized.
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Jeremy Podeswa
Canadian Director
I'm very attracted to schematic structures. My brother is a chemical engineer, he has a very mathematical mind, and he's also a visual artist. I think we have a lot in common. And my first film had a very tight structure, narratively.
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Lenny Abrahamson
Irish Director
That's the way life is: meaning is always there, but there is no clearly given way of decoding it. Conventional cinema obscures this with an easy reduction of meaning to plot and schematic characters.
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Mike Figgis
English Director
In discussing the process with the actors, I made it clear to them that they could improvise but that the sum total of their improvisation needed to impart certain plot points, and schematic material.
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Peter Carey
Australian Novelist
So in the first draft, I'm inventing people and place with a broad schematic idea of what's going to happen. In the process, of course, I discover all sorts of bigger and more substantial things.
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James Merrill
American Poet
Arthur Young's Reflexive Universe - fascinating but too schematic to fit into my scheme. The most I could hope for was a sense of the vocabulary and some possible images.
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Peter Morgan
British Writer
I wrote 'Hereafter' quickly and without mapping it out too much or being too schematic. As an exercise, I think that was incredibly important.
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Charles C. Mann
American Journalist
Japanese maps tend to come in two varieties: small, schematic, and bewildering; and large, fantastically detailed, and bewildering.
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Maria Semple
American Novelist
I try to begin with a strong grasp of my characters. Even if it's schematic, I need it clear in my head who these people are.
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Jasper Johns
American Artist
To do a drawing for a painting most often means doing something very sketchy and schematic and then later making it polished.
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William Scranton
American Politician
None of us knew what this power plant looked like. We had no schematic drawing.
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Jeremy Podeswa
Canadian Director
I'm very attracted to schematic structures. My brother is a chemical engineer, he has a very mathematical mind, and he's also a visual artist. I think we have a lot in common. And my first film had a very tight structure, narratively.
Quote examples
Lenny Abrahamson
Irish Director
That's the way life is: meaning is always there, but there is no clearly given way of decoding it. Conventional cinema obscures this with an easy reduction of meaning to plot and schematic characters.
Quote examples
Mike Figgis
English Director
In discussing the process with the actors, I made it clear to them that they could improvise but that the sum total of their improvisation needed to impart certain plot points, and schematic material.
Quote examples
Peter Carey
Australian Novelist
So in the first draft, I'm inventing people and place with a broad schematic idea of what's going to happen. In the process, of course, I discover all sorts of bigger and more substantial things.
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James Merrill
American Poet
Arthur Young's Reflexive Universe - fascinating but too schematic to fit into my scheme. The most I could hope for was a sense of the vocabulary and some possible images.
Quote examples
Peter Morgan
British Writer
I wrote 'Hereafter' quickly and without mapping it out too much or being too schematic. As an exercise, I think that was incredibly important.
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Charles C. Mann
American Journalist
Japanese maps tend to come in two varieties: small, schematic, and bewildering; and large, fantastically detailed, and bewildering.
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Maria Semple
American Novelist
I try to begin with a strong grasp of my characters. Even if it's schematic, I need it clear in my head who these people are.
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Jasper Johns
American Artist
To do a drawing for a painting most often means doing something very sketchy and schematic and then later making it polished.
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William Scranton
American Politician
None of us knew what this power plant looked like. We had no schematic drawing.
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