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別の表記

• gauntree, gauntry, gawntree (archaic)

語源

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

発音

• IPA: /ˈɡæntɹi/
• 韻: -æntɹi

名詞

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, 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 10) was eroded with a disk of three pixels.

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アナグラム

• gyrant