scaffold

  • 11scaffold — /ˈskæfəld / (say skafuhld), / oʊld/ (say ohld) noun 1. Also, scaffolding. a temporary structure for holding workers and materials during the erection, repair, cleaning, or decoration of a building. 2. an elevated platform on which a criminal is… …

  • 12scaffold — [14] Historically, scaffold and catafalque [17] ‘coffin stand’ are virtually the same word. Catafalque comes via French catafalque and Italian catafalco from Vulgar Latin *catafalcum, a word of uncertain origin. Combination with the prefix ex… …

    The Hutchinson dictionary of word origins

  • 13scaffold — The central proteinaceous core structure of condensed eukaryotic chromosomes. The scaffold is composed of non histone chromosomal proteins …

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  • 14scaffold — [14] Historically, scaffold and catafalque [17] ‘coffin stand’ are virtually the same word. Catafalque comes via French catafalque and Italian catafalco from Vulgar Latin *catafalcum, a word of uncertain origin. Combination with the prefix ex… …

    Word origins

  • 15Scaffold (disambiguation) — Scaffold and scaffolding may refer to:*Instructional scaffolding, the provision of sufficient supports to promote learning when concepts and skills are being first introduced to students *Scaffolding, in construction, a temporary structure that… …

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  • 16Scaffold web spider — Scaffold web spiders male Nesticus sp. Scientific classification Kingdom …

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  • 17Scaffold protein — Scaffold proteins bring together various other proteins in a signaling pathway and allows for their interaction. They recruit downstream effectors in a pathway and enhance specificity of the signal …

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  • 18Scaffold (programming) — Scaffolding is a meta programming method of building database backed software applications. It is a technique supported by some model view controller frameworks, in which the programmer may write a specification that describes how the application …

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  • 19Scaffold/matrix attachment region — S/MAR functions: constitutive and facultative. A chromatin domain with constitutive S/MARs at its termini (I). When functional demands require the specific translocation of the constituent gene to the matrix, facultative S/MARs responds to… …

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  • 20scaffold branch — noun or scaffold limb Etymology: scaffold (I) : one of the main branches forming the framework of a tree or shrub …

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