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/

  • Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -æntɹi

Noun

gantry (plural gantries)

A gantry on the Acosta Bridge in Jacksonville, Florida

1. A framework of steel bars resting on side supports to bridge over or around something.
2. A supporting framework for a barrel.
3. A gantry crane or gantry scaffold.
4. (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, Dominik Guggisberg et al., “Mechanism and control of the eye formation in cheese”, in International Dairy Journal‎^[1], volume 47, Elsevier, →DOI, 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)

• Czech: nosná konstrukce, portál (cs) m
• Dutch: portaal (nl) n
• Finnish: ristikkopalkki (general); portaali (fi) (supporting traffic signs)
• French: portique (fr)
• Georgian: პორტალი (ṗorṭali), სასიგნალო ხიდი (sasignalo xidi)
• German: Portal (de) n, Schilderbrücke f (on motorway), Signalbrücke f (on railway)
• 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

• gyrant