staging

 
Pronunciation: /ˈsteɪdʒɪŋ/

noun

[mass noun]
  • 1the method of presenting a play or other dramatic performance: the quality of staging and design [count noun]: one of the better stagings of Hamlet
  • the organizing of a public event or protest: the staging of the Norfolk Festival of Movement
  • 2a stage or set of stages or temporary platforms arranged as a support for performers or between different levels of scaffolding: pairs of ladders can be bridged with staging [count noun]: men at work on high stagings
  • British a shelving unit for plants in a greenhouse.
  • 3 Medicine diagnosis or classification of the particular stage reached by a progressive disease: post-operative staging was performed
  • 4the arrangement of stages in a rocket or spacecraft.
  • the separation and jettisoning of a stage from the remainder of a rocket when its propellant is spent.