gantry

English

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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”).[1][2]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈɡæntɹi/
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  • Rhymes: -æntɹi

Noun

gantry (plural gantries)

  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, by extension) A faregate or turnstile controlling the entry and exit of people at a location.
  5. (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[3], 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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References

  1. ^ Barnhart, Robert and Steinmetz, Sol, editors (1988), “gantry”, in The Barnhart Dictionary of Etymology‎[1], Bronxville, N.Y.: The H. W. Wilson Co., →ISBN, →OCLC, page 421, column 2.
  2. ^ Onions, C[harles] T., Friedrichsen, G. W. S., and Burchfield, R[obert] W., editors (1966), “gantry, gauntry”, in The Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology‎[2], Oxford: Clarendon Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 389, column 1; reprinted 1994.

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