Scaffold (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 supports workers and equipment above the ground or floor
• Scaffold, in capital punishment, refers to a structure used as a gallows that the condemned stands upon, often with a trap door; it can also refer to the elevated structure on which a condemned person is set to be beheaded
• Scaffold, in chemistry, a structure that is used to hold up or support another material, such as a drug, crystal or protein
• Scaffold, in drug design, fixed part of a molecule on which functional groups are substituted or exchanged
  • The protein that is used as a starting point for the design of antibody mimetics
• Tissue scaffold, in tissue engineering, an artificial structure capable of supporting three-dimensional tissue formation
• The Scaffold, a United Kingdom musical group
• Scaffold (programming), a term that comes from the Ruby on Rails framework, which is a facility to construct most of the logic and views needed to do common data access operations, such as CRUD