Definition of scaffolding
: a system of scaffolds;
also
: material for scaffolds
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For years now, construction crews and scaffolding have been common around many buildings in The Hamptons at Metrowest, Orlando’s largest condo complex, while the landscape in many areas is bare and dusty.
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Atlanta fire is investigating after a scaffolding collapsed at an apartment building at the intersection of West Peachtree Street and 14th Street, Sgt.
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The scaffolding itself is known as tau, a protein that binds those cells together and helps molecules move between them.
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Later Friday morning, the fog moved on, revealing the scaffolding still in place.
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The opportunity to exclusively read, think, and write about books provided a cerebral scaffolding that is indispensable to my current work.
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Yet his insights would form much of the basic scaffolding for the modern US environmental movement.
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The site stank of urine constantly; the work was being done from unsafe scaffolding.
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OKRs are the scaffolding for Google’s signature home runs, including seven products with a billion or more users apiece: Search, Chrome, Android, Maps, YouTube, Google Play, and Gmail.
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First Known Use of scaffolding
14th century
SCAFFOLDING Defined for English Language Learners
Definition of scaffolding for English Language Learners
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: the metal poles and wooden boards that are used to build or support a scaffold (sense 1)
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