Schema vs Fabric - What's the difference?
schema | fabric |
An outline or image universally applicable to a general conception, under which it is likely to be presented to the mind (for example, a ).
(databases) A formal description of the structure of a database: the names of the tables, the names of the columns of each table, and the data type and other attributes of each column.
(markup languages) A formal description of data, data types, and data file structures, such as for XML files.
(logic) A formula in the language of an axiomatic system, in which one or more schematic variables appear, which stand for any term or subformula of the system, which may or may not be required to satisfy certain conditions.
(archaic) structure, building
* Milton
(archaic) The act of constructing; construction; fabrication.
* Milman
(archaic) The structure of anything; the manner in which the parts of a thing are united; workmanship; texture; make.
The framework underlying a structure
A material made of fibers, a textile or cloth.
(petrology) The appearance of crystalline grains in a rock
(computing) Interconnected nodes that look like a textile 'fabric' when viewed collectively from a distance
As nouns the difference between schema and fabric
is that schema is schema, diagram while fabric is (archaic) structure, building.schema
English
Noun
(en-noun)Synonyms
* (universally-applicable image or outline) schemat * (databases) schemat * (logic) axiom schema, schematDerived terms
* conceptual schema * logical schema * physical schemaAnagrams
* *References
* “schema]” listed in the [[w:Oxford English Dictionary, Oxford English Dictionary], second edition (1989) English nouns with irregular plurals ----
fabric
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Alternative forms
* fabrick (obsolete)Noun
(wikipedia fabric)- Anon out of the earth a fabric huge / Rose like an exhalation.
- Tithe was received by the bishop for the fabric of the churches for the poor.
- cloth of a beautiful fabric
- the fabric of our lives
- the fabric of the universe
- cotton fabric
- The internet is a fabric of computers connected by routers
