gantry

• gauntree, gauntry, gawntree (archaic)

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡæntɹi/

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• Rhymes: -æntɹi

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, 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.

• gantry crane
• gantry scaffold
• signal gantry

• gyrant