gantry/ˈɡæntɹi/EtymologyFrom 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”).gantry means A framework of steel bars resting on side supports to bridge over or around something. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 85 out of 100.gantry is pronounced /ˈɡæntɹi/.nounA 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.A faregate or turnstile controlling the entry and exit of people at a location.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.“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.”