Associations to the word «Gantry»

Wiktionary

GANTRY, noun. A framework of steel bars resting on side supports to bridge over or around something.
GANTRY, noun. A supporting framework for a barrel.
GANTRY, noun. A gantry crane or gantry scaffold.
GANTRY, noun. (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.
GANTRY CRANE, noun. A large crane mounted on a platform that usually runs back and forth on parallel tracks astride the work area.
GANTRY CRANES, noun. Plural of gantry crane
GANTRY SCAFFOLD, noun. A massive scaffolding structure mounted on a bridge or platform supported by a pair of towers or trestles that normally run back and forth on parallel tracks, used to assemble and service a large rocket as the rocket rests on its launch pad.
GANTRY SCAFFOLDS, noun. Plural of gantry scaffold

Dictionary definition

GANTRY, noun. A framework of steel bars raised on side supports to bridge over or around something; can display railway signals above several tracks or can support a traveling crane etc..

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats