English-French translations for schematic

• schématique
  Nous ne voulons pas en revenir aux contrôles préalables centralisés et schématiques qui dégageaient de toute responsabilité et donnaient l'image d'une fausse sécurité. We do not want a return to schematic centralised preliminary controls that took away responsibility and created a false sense of security.
• schéma
  Mais en fin de compte, nous nous retrouvons dans un schéma rigide, avec des universités partiellement privatisées, qui prétend pouvoir planifier le résultat de l'éducation. Ultimately, the result is a highly inflexible schematic approach, partly-privatised universities, that would make it possible to plan educational output.

Definition of schematic

• represented too simply or in an overly formulaic way, reflecting a shallow or incomplete understanding of complex subject matter
• relating to a schema
• A simplified line drawing used by scientists, engineers, technologists and others to illustrate a system at an abstract level. Schematic drawings often use standard symbols for clarity

Examples

• Ill have to study the schematics for the new integrated circuit before I can create a good layout.

Related words

• schematically
• schematic diagram
• schematic capture
• electronic schematic
• layout versus schematic