SKELETON

Skeleton

The skeleton is the body part that forms the supporting structure of an organism. There are two different skeletal types: the exoskeleton, which is the stable outer shell of an organism, and the endoskeleton, which forms the support structure inside the body.

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skeleton

Noun

  1. The system that provides support to an organism, internal and made up of bones and cartilage in vertebrates, external in some other animals.
  2. A frame that provides support to a building or other construction.
  3. A very thin person.
    She lost so much weight while she was ill that she became a skeleton.
  4. (From the sled used, which originally was a bare frame, like a skeleton.) A type of tobogganing in which competitors lie face down, and descend head first (compare luge). See
  5. A client-helper procedure that communicates with a stub.
    RMI Nomenclature: in RMI, the client helper is a 'stub' and the service helper is a 'skeleton'.
  6. The vertices and edges of a polyhedron, taken collectively.
  7. An anthropomorphic representation of a skeleton. See
    She dressed up as a skeleton for Halloween.
  8. The central core of something that gives shape to the entire structure.
    The skeleton of the organisation is essentially the same as it was ten years ago, but many new faces have come and gone.

Verb

  1. to reduce to a skeleton; to skin; to skeletonize
  2. to minimize


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