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  • noun Plural form of scaffolding.

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Examples

  • Information technologies have become instruments of mind expansion and sensorial scaffoldings that increase and augment our capacity to process greater amounts of information, allowing us to extract richer gradients of meaningful data about the world and our experience.

    Jason Silva: The Beginning of Infinity Jason Silva 2011

  • Information technologies have become instruments of mind expansion and sensorial scaffoldings that increase and augment our capacity to process greater amounts of information, allowing us to extract richer gradients of meaningful data about the world and our experience.

    Jason Silva: The Beginning of Infinity Jason Silva 2011

  • Information technologies have become instruments of mind expansion and sensorial scaffoldings that increase and augment our capacity to process greater amounts of information, allowing us to extract richer gradients of meaningful data about the world and our experience.

    Jason Silva: The Beginning of Infinity Jason Silva 2011

  • Information technologies have become instruments of mind expansion and sensorial scaffoldings that increase and augment our capacity to process greater amounts of information, allowing us to extract richer gradients of meaningful data about the world and our experience.

    Jason Silva: The Beginning of Infinity Jason Silva 2011

  • They must have carried hundreds of thousands of volts from the guts of the building through a series of metallic and, she supposed, ceramic or other insulated fittings, into even more complicated scaffoldings and supports and towers.

    The Burning Wire Jeffery Deaver 2010

  • They must have carried hundreds of thousands of volts from the guts of the building through a series of metallic and, she supposed, ceramic or other insulated fittings, into even more complicated scaffoldings and supports and towers.

    The Burning Wire Jeffery Deaver 2010

  • By day Nostradamus made sure the scaffoldings were straight and the materials were local.

    Nostradamus Crosses a Bridge that is Yet to be Built. 2010

  • They were alleged to have issued directly from the moccasined feet of Indians sighted near the plant's permanent scaffoldings.

    The Unnatural History of Brown's Island 2010

  • I think of those as scene scaffoldings, but plot works too.

    BOOK VIEW CAFE BLOG » Writers on Writing: Scaffolding 2010

  • Reuters Labourers work on the scaffoldings at a construction site in Haikou, Hainan province July 20, 2009.

    China's Producers Sustain Rebound 2009

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