English Dictionary

scaffolding

noun

A temporary modular system of tubes (or formerly wood) forming a framework used to support people and material in the construction or repair of buildings and other large structures.

The workers used scaffolding to reach the top of the building.

意味（1）

A temporary modular system of tubes (or formerly wood) forming a framework used to support people and material in the construction or repair of buildings and other large structures.

[…] transparent scaffoldings partially draped with often hallucinatory nets of lines, gouges, hatching and cross-hatching that somehow also depict varying degrees of flesh, features and expression.

意味（2）

(programming) Source code etc. that is incomplete and serves as a basis for further development.

意味（3）

(figuratively) Any framework or support.

We refer to the process by which socialization agents support emotional activity within the child as emotional scaffolding.