Meaning

3 senses
  1. (uncountable)Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see scheme, theory.

  2. (uncountable)The branch of mathematics that concerns schemes (locally ringed spaces admitting coverings by open sets, each isomorphic to the spectrum of some commutative ring).

  3. (uncountable)A theory of group decision-making which explains group decisions as the result of a decision scheme on the initial distribution of attitudes in the group.

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