gantry

Meaning

Noun

• A framework of steel bars resting on side supports to bridge over or around something.
• A supporting framework for a barrel.
• A gantry crane or gantry scaffold.
• (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.

Origin

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