SCAFFOLDING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does scaffolding mean? 

• SCAFFOLDING (noun)
  The noun SCAFFOLDING has 1 sense:

1. a system of scaffolds

  Familiarity information: SCAFFOLDING used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SCAFFOLDING (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A system of scaffolds

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

scaffolding; staging

Hypernyms ("scaffolding" is a kind of...):

system (instrumentality that combines interrelated interacting artifacts designed to work as a coherent entity)

Meronyms (parts of "scaffolding"):

scaffold (a temporary arrangement erected around a building for convenience of workers)

Derivation:

scaffold (provide with a scaffold for support)

 Context examples 

“No? Let's get the scaffolding up, then, for a pair of whiskers. Come!”

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Caveolin 1 (CAV1), encoded by the CAV1 gene, is a scaffolding protein and the main component of the caveolae plasma membranes found in most cell types.

(Caveolin 1, NCI Thesaurus)

The protein scaffolding (the network of filaments microfilaments, microtubules, intermediate filaments, and their associated proteins) that gives shape, structure, and organization to the cytoplasm and a cell its shape.

(Cytoskeleton, NCI Thesaurus)

An invisible substance, dark matter is the underlying scaffolding upon which galaxies are built.

(Dark Matter Goes Missing in Oddball Galaxy, NASA)

Some scaffolding had been erected against the end wall, and the stone-work had been broken into, but there were no signs of any workmen at the moment of our visit.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Dark matter is an invisible form of matter that makes up the bulk of the universe's mass and creates the scaffolding upon which galaxies are built.

(Cosmic Magnifying Glasses Find Dark Matter in Small Clumps, NASA)

“The development of decellularized plants for scaffolding opens up the potential for a new branch of science that investigates the mimicry between plant and animal.”

(Human Heart Cells Grown on Spinach Leaves, VOA News)

Impaired Cytoskeletal Integrity consists of activities that interfere with, or restrain, fabrication, construction, or maintenance of the network of protein scaffolding, filaments, tubules, and interconnecting filamentous bridges (microfilaments, microtubules, intermediate filaments, and associated proteins) that give shape, structure, and organization to the cytoplasm and to a cell.

(Impaired Cytoskeletal Integrity, NCI Thesaurus)

Cytoskeletal Synthesis Inhibition consists of interference with, or restraint of, the activities of enzymes involved in the formation of the protein scaffolding network of filaments, tubules, and interconnecting filamentous bridges that give shape, structure, and organization to the cytoplasm and a cell its shape.

(Cytoskeletal Synthesis Inhibition, NCI Thesaurus)

Astronomers theorize that this frenzied star birth was sparked by a torrent of gas flowing into the galaxy's core while it formed deep inside a gravitational well of dark matter, invisible cosmic material that acts as the scaffolding of the universe for galaxy construction.

(Telescopes Uncover Early Construction of Giant Galaxy, NASA)