gantry

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Etymology

From Old French chantier (probably via Lua error in Module:parameters at line 360: Parameter 2 should be a valid language, etymology language or family code; the value "ONF." is not valid. See WT:LOL, WT:LOL/E and WT:LOF. gantier), from Late Latin cantarium, from Latin canterius (“trellis, sort of frame”).

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  • IPA(key): /ˈɡæntɹi/
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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.

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