1. present participle of scramble#English|scramble

   The Air Force is scrambling the fighter jets.

   When you start scrambling eggs, look first for tiny pieces of eggshell that might have fallen in.

• German: scrambling, kletternd

scrambling (plural scramblings)

1. An act of scrambling.

   The scrambling of the message made it harder to decode.

• French: cyrl
• German: Scrambling, Verwürfelung

scrambling

1. Confused and irregular; awkward; scambling.
   • 1826, [Walter Scott], Woodstock; Or, The Cavalier. A Tale of the Year Sixteen Hundred and Fifty-one. [...] In Three Volumes, volume (please specify ), Edinburgh: Printed [by James Ballantyne and Co.] for Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, OCLC 991895633 ↗:

2. (botany) Having a stem too weak to support itself, instead attaching to and relying on the stems or trunks of stronger plants.
   • 1998, Kerp, Hans, and Michael Krings. "Climbing and scrambling growth habits: common life strategies among Late Carboniferous seed ferns", Comptes Rendus de l'Académie des Sciences, Series IIA-Earth and Planetary Science 326.8 (1998): 583-588.

     All three types of climbing organs here demonstrated for Late Palaeozoic seed ferns are also found in modern angiosperms. This leads to the conclusion that several taxa of Late Palaeozoic seed ferns were well-adapted to climbing and scrambling growth habits.