NOUN
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the internal supporting structure that gives an artifact its shape
the building has a steel skeleton
How To Use skeletal frame In A Sentence
- Details of how the Pond of Safety Forest will be managed are still being hammered into place, but a skeletal framework is clear.
- For the fossil record of the Cambrian Explosion does not reveal the gradual development of life forms as Darwin posited in his work, but a period in which compound eyes, articulated limbs, sophisticated sensory organs and skeletal frames burst into existence seemingly out of nowhere. Darwin's Dilemna Premiering
- His skeletal frame has degenerated to that of a 70 year old.
- The “RepRap” is a skeletal framework with a nozzled printhead that moves in three dimensions. Self-Reliance 2008
- The trees cast their skeletal frames against the gunmetal sky and the crows, like a flock of hooded widows, lamented their lot with throaty cries.
- A balanced skeletal frame ensures that muscles use energy economically. Survive the Nine to Five - a woman's guide to working well
- The Green Berets are also investigating "exoskeletal frames" that commandos would wear like RoboCop to give them superhuman strength for carrying heavy loads and breaking down doors. Secret Warriors
- It shows prominent radial and concentric trabeculae that unite in three dimensions to produce a rectangular or quadrate skeletal framework.
- An angular skeletal frame and warped planes give a strong sense of the building being poised to take flight over the vastness of the wilderness that it surveys.
- She was dressed in her uniform, a thin green polo shirt that swamped her skeletal frame and a pair of baggy black trousers.