Scheme

Scheme or schemer may refer to:

Arts and entertainment

• The Scheme, a BBC Scotland documentary TV series
• The Scheme (band), an English pop band
• The Scheme, an action role-playing video game for the PC-8801, made by Quest Corporation
• Schemer (comics), Richard Fisk, a Marvel Comics villain turned antihero
• Horace Schemer, a fictional character in the TV series Shining Time Station
• Schemers (film), a Scottish film

Computing

• Scheme (programming language), a minimalist dialect of Lisp
• Scheme (URI), the front part of a web link, like "http" or "ftp"
• Google Schemer, a former service allowing its users to share plans and interests

Other uses

• Classification scheme (information science), eg a thesaurus, a taxonomy, a data model or an ontology
• Scheme (mathematics), a concept in algebraic geometry
• Scheme (rhetoric), a figure of speech that changes a sentence's structure
• Scam, an attempt to swindle or cheat people through deception
  • Get-rich-quick scheme, a plan to obtain high rates of return for a small investment
  • Matrix scheme, or ladder scheme, a business model involving the exchange of money for a product and a waiting list for a product of greater value
  • Ponzi scheme, a scam paying investors returns from their own or others' money (rather than from profits)
  • Pyramid scheme, a non-sustainable business model involving payments primarily for enrolling other people
• Scheme, a type of government program in India

See also

• Color scheme
• Contract
• Housing scheme, a Scottish term for a council housing development
• Investment fund
• Numbering scheme
• Rhyme scheme
• Schema (disambiguation)