gantry

Significat (Anglès)

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. 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.

Conceptes

suport

Sinònims

gauntry

service structure

portal

staddle

service tower

portal frame

gantry mounting

goalpost

portal-type frame

platform

Traduccions

portique

portaal

tour de montage

stellage

Portalkran

portail

incastellatura

incastellatura a cavalletto

steiger

stelling

seinbrug

portal

puente transversal

Pronunciat com a (IPA)

/ˈɡæntɹi/

Etimologia (Anglès)

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”).