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Schematic vs Cutaway - What's the difference?

schematic | cutaway |

As adjectives the difference between schematic and cutaway

is that schematic is represented simply while cutaway is (3D graphics) Having selectively removed surface elements of a three-dimensional model that make internal features visible, but without sacrificing the outer context entirely.

As nouns the difference between schematic and cutaway

is that schematic is a drawing or sketch showing how a system works at an abstract level while cutaway is a cut to a shot of person listening to a speaker so that the audience can see the listener's reaction.

schematic

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • represented simply
  • sketchy, incomplete
  • * 1902 , , Varieties of Religious Experience ,
    • Dr. Starbuck gives an interesting, and it seems to me a true, account -- so far as conceptions so schematic can claim truth at all...
  • relating to a schema
  • *
    • Given the terminology we have introduced here, we can say that all of the bracketed phrases in (3) above are of the schematic form (4) below:
    (4)    Specifier + Head + Complement
    Now, we have already argued in the case of Noun Phrases that a Head Noun together with its Complement form an N-bar; and that this N-bar together with its Specifier ( = Determiner) forms an N-double-bar.

    Noun

    (wikipedia schematic) (en noun)
  • A drawing or sketch showing how a system works at an abstract level.
    • I'll have to study the schematics for the new integrated circuit before I can create a good layout.

    Synonyms

    * diagram

    Anagrams

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    cutaway

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • (3D graphics ) Having selectively removed surface elements of a three-dimensional model that make internal features visible, but without sacrificing the outer context entirely.
    • 2004', While it used to take several seconds to generate a single '''cutaway view in a complex freeform model, you can now view them just about instantly by dynamically scrolling and rotating a plane forward and backward through an object. ''CADalyst, Jan 2004

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (television) A cut to a shot of person listening to a speaker so that the audience can see the listener's reaction.
    • 2004', Despite a pre-debate “memorandum of understanding” between the Bush campaign and the Kerry campaign that there would be no televised “'''cutaways ” or reaction shots ... — ''The New Yorker, 18 Oct 2004
  • (television) The interruption of a continuously filmed action by inserting a view of something else.
  • A coat with a tapered frontline.
  • A diagram or model having outer layers removed so as to show the interior