The word "schematic" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to an explanatory diagram, or a plan of something organized. For example, you could say: "The schematic of the electrical system showed us exactly which wires were connected where."
Nannie's wayward lifestyle and outspoken views on such newfangled matters as organic farming have had Garnett's nose out of joint for decades".Prodigal Summer" is perhaps too baldly schematic in its construction to be entirely satisfying as a novel.
Looking for political patterns is also fraught: the once-canvassed claim, for example, that right-wing refugees were drawn to conservative Britain, radical ones to a forward-looking United States now seems schematic, if not false on the facts.The Hitler refugees made an impact nevertheless, especially in Britain, which was smaller and culturally more compact.
Such advantages, they say, outweigh the drawbacks of exposing what are usually seen as corporate secrets.The origins of openIn some ways, open-source hardware is a throwback to the 1970s and 1980s, when early computers were sold in kits or shipped with schematic diagrams to make it easier for users to customise them.
In 1931, a year before he was born, a Tube worker named Harry Beck had designed his now-famous schematic map of the system, the clean lines of which ignored distance and geography in favour of showing only the essential information of how the stations were connected.
In effect, this differs precious little from a schematic computer program, with people playing the role of software modules that, given a particular input, create a usable output for the next module to churn.The planned test of the system also carries a whiff of basic computer science: the classic thought experiment devised by Alan Turing, an artificial-intelligence pioneer.
It is a schematic but powerful symbol of a woman struggling to be heard in the male-dominated society of Ms Neshat's Iran, and the music is enthralling.No less expressive in its silence is an extraordinary collection of some 100 life-sized statues gathered by Cai Guo-Qiang, a Chinese artist.
Like other stories in "The Comedy Year", the story about Daya is so schematic that it is hard to accept, even in the context of post-modernist discourse on women's empowerment at the expense of men's castration".The Key", by Wang Qinghui, also deals in stereotyped themes, this time that the rich suffer too.
Randall Morck, the academic, finds that in large parts of the world pyramidical business groups allow "mere handfuls of wealthy families" to control entire economies (see chart 5, for a schematic view of how this works).
First, a hacker has to remove the toy's control circuitry and draw a schematic diagram of its components and the connections among them.
Using a schematic mathematical model, two American-based European economists, Xavier Gabaix and Augustin Landier, concluded that the sixfold increase in the size of American firms between 1980 and 2003 may account for much of the sixfold increase in managers' pay during that period.
Just occasionally, an Ayckbourn play may seem schematic, in thrall to a challenge he has set himself.The playwright's phenomenal productivity becomes incomprehensible when he points out that he is only a part-time writer.
