gantry

English

Alternative forms

gauntree, gauntry, gawntree (archaic)

Etymology

From Old French chantier (probably via Old Northern French gantier), from Late Latin cantarium, from Latin canterius (“trellis, sort of frame”).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈɡæntɹi/
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Rhymes: -æntɹi

Noun

gantry (plural gantries)

A gantry on the Acosta Bridge in Jacksonville, Florida

A framework of steel bars resting on side supports to bridge over or around something.
A supporting framework for a barrel.
A gantry crane or gantry scaffold.
(medical imaging) A cylindrical scanner assembly in the bore of which the response of bodies or tissues to some specific exposure can be detected for 3D imaging.
- 2015 August 1, Dominik Guggisberg [et al.], “Mechanism and control of the eye formation in cheese”, in International Dairy Journal‎, volume 47, Elsevier, DOI:10.1016/j.idairyj.2015.03.001, pages 118-127:
  In the tomographic images of the 30-day-old cheeses, the gantry had to be removed with image processing techniques: first, the binarised image (grey level larger than 10⁴) was eroded with a disk of three pixels.

Derived terms

gantry crane
gantry scaffold
signal gantry

Translations

framework of steel bars bridging over something

Bulgarian: портал (bg) m (portal)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 龍門架／龙门架 (lóngménjià), 跨軌信號架／跨轨信号架 (kuāguǐ xìnhàojià)
Dutch: portaal (nl) n
Finnish: ristikkopalkki (general); portaali (fi) (supporting traffic signs)
French: portique (fr)
Georgian: პორტალი (ṗorṭali), სასიგნალო ხიდი (sasignalo xidi)
German: Signalbrücke f
Irish: túr freastail m
Italian: incastellatura (it) f
Polish: stelaż (pl) m
Russian: сигна́льный мо́стик m (signálʹnyj móstik), порта́л (ru) m (portál)
Scottish Gaelic: sorch m
Spanish: andamio metálico m, pórtico (es)
Turkish: makas köprüsü
Ukrainian: сигна́льний місто́к m (syhnálʹnyj mistók)

supporting framework for a barrel

Finnish: kehikko (fi)
Hungarian: ászok (hu)
Scottish Gaelic: sorch m

gantry scaffold — see gantry scaffold

Anagrams

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