Scaffold (disambiguation)

Scaffold and scaffolding may refer to:

General

Scaffolding, in construction, a temporary structure that supports workers and equipment above the ground or floor

Instructional scaffolding, the provision of sufficient supports to promote learning when concepts and skills are being first introduced to students. Scott Thornbury states that this term refers to the interactional support given to enable learners perform a task at a level beyond their present competence.

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
Scaffold, in bioinformatics, a collection of discontinuous contigs of a given genetic sequence
Scaffolding, a technique in bioinformatics.

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