gantry
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Old French chantier (probably via Old Northern French gantier), from Late Latin cantarium, from Latin canterius (“trellis, sort of frame”).
Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): /ˈɡæntɹi/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
- Rhymes: -æntɹi
Noun
[edit]gantry (plural gantries)
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- 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, Dominik Guggisberg et al., “Mechanism and control of the eye formation in cheese”, in International Dairy Journal[1], volume 47, Elsevier, , 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
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[edit]framework of steel bars bridging over something
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supporting framework for a barrel
gantry scaffold — see gantry scaffold
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