Dictionary

gantry en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• /ˈɡæntɹi/
• (Southern-England) audio

Etymology

From earlier gauntree, possibly from dialectal gaun (“gallon”) + tree, perhaps as a reinterpretation of Middle English *gaunter, from Old Northern French gantier, from Late Latin cantarium, from Latin canterius (“trellis, sort of frame”).

Meanings

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. (Singapore, broadly) A faregate or turnstile controlling the entry and exit of people at a location.
5. (qualifier: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.
   • 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. 2015 August 14, Dominik Guggisberg et al., “Mechanism and control of the eye formation in cheese”, in International Dairy Journal, volume 47, Elsevier, →DOI, pages 118–127:

Forms

Deriveds

gantried · signal gantry · gantryman · gantry scaffold · gantry crane · gantryless

Translations (29)

uk сигна́льний місто́к (framework of steel bars bridging over something) · pl stojak na beczki (supporting framework for a barrel) · pl stelaż (framework of steel bars bridging over something) · gd sorch (supporting framework for a barrel) · nl portaal (framework of steel bars bridging over something) · de Portal (framework of steel bars bridging over something) · ka პორტალი (framework of steel bars bridging over something) · ru порта́л (framework of steel bars bridging over something) · it incastellatura (framework of steel bars bridging over something) · cs nosná konstrukce (framework of steel bars bridging over something) · cmn 跨軌信號架 /跨轨信号架 (framework of steel bars bridging over something) · fi kehikko (supporting framework for a barrel) · fr portique (framework of steel bars bridging over something) · hu ászok (supporting framework for a barrel) · de Signalbrücke (framework of steel bars bridging over something) · ga túr freastail (framework of steel bars bridging over something) · es andamio metálico (framework of steel bars bridging over something) · fi ristikkopalkki (framework of steel bars bridging over something) · cs portál (framework of steel bars bridging over something) · ru сигна́льный мо́стик (framework of steel bars bridging over something) · fi portaali (framework of steel bars bridging over something) · bg портал (framework of steel bars bridging over something) · de Schilderbrücke (on motorway) (framework of steel bars bridging over something) · es pórtico (framework of steel bars bridging over something) · nb skiltbro (on motorway) (framework of steel bars bridging over something) · ka სასიგნალო ხიდი (framework of steel bars bridging over something) · gd sorch (framework of steel bars bridging over something) · cmn 龍門架 /龙门架 (framework of steel bars bridging over something) · tr makas köprüsü (framework of steel bars bridging over something)