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gantry

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noun/ˈɡæntɹi/
  1. 1

    A framework of steel bars resting on side supports to bridge over or around something.

  2. 2

    A supporting framework for a barrel.

  3. 3

    A gantry crane or gantry scaffold.

  4. 4

    A faregate or turnstile controlling the entry and exit of people at a location.Singaporebroadly

  5. 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.

    • 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.

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