1 A temporary structure or platform for workmen to stand or sit on when working in high places; also called Staging 2 A temporary framework structure for the support of concrete forms and other shoring; adjustable metal scaffold is frequently adapted for shoring of concrete formwork
Specifically, a stage or elevated platform for the execution of a criminal; as, to die on the scaffold
The nuclear structure observed when histones are experimentally removed from chromosomes Thought to represent a structural component of the nucleus and of chromosome
In genomic mapping, a series of contigs that are in the right order but not necessarily connected in one continuous stretch of sequence