Schema vs Specification - What's the difference?
schema | specification |
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.
As nouns the difference between schema and specification
is that schema is an outline or image universally applicable to a general conception, under which it is likely to be presented to the mind (for example, a body schema) while specification is an explicit set of requirements to be satisfied by a material, product, or service.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 ----