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語源

From Old French chantier (probably via Old Northern French gantier), from Late Latin cantarium, from Latin canterius (“trellis, sort of frame”).

発音

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡæntɹi/
  • 韻: -æntɹi

名詞

gantry (複数形 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 1, Dominik Guggisberg [et al.], “Mechanism and control of the eye formation in cheese”, in International Dairy Journal‎^[1], volume 47, Elsevier, DOI:10.1016/j.idairyj.2015.03.001, 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.

派生語

• gantry crane
• gantry scaffold
• signal gantry