Scheme

Scheme may refer to:

  • Scheme (programming language), a minimalist, multi-paradigm dialect of Lisp
  • Scheme (mathematics), a concept in algebraic geometry
  • Scheme (linguistics), a figure of speech that changes a sentence's structure
  • Schemer (comics), a Marvel Comics villain turned antihero
  • The Scheme, a BBC Scotland television documentary series

Famous quotes containing the word scheme:

    “We doubt not the destiny of our country—that she is to accomplish great things for human nature, and be the mother of a nobler race than the world has yet known. But she has been so false to the scheme made out at her nativity, that it is now hard to say which way that destiny points.”
    —Margaret Fuller (1810–1850)

    “We hold these truths to be self-evident:
    That ostracism, both political and moral, has
    Its place in the twentieth-century scheme of things....”
    —John Ashbery (b. 1927)