Scheme

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A scheme is a plan or a system of related parts. The word comes from the Latin schema which means "figure". Special meanings of the word include the following.

The Scheme programming language is a dialect of Lisp.
In mathematics, schemes are an important concept connecting the fields of algebraic geometry, commutative algebra and number theory. See scheme (mathematics).

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