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What is a gantry?

What is a gantry? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  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. (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.
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With the gantry crane on site, the new turbine is being unloaded and moved to its foundation.
The second stage of a Delta II rocket is prepared for its shift to vertical alongside the gantry at pad 17A at Cape Canaveral Air Station.
The massive stanchions that had supported the crane gantry rails in the past now support the new steel-framed structures.
It will also be integrated and assembled in the mobile gantry on the launch pad and not in a final assembly building.
Four giant white spotlights were illuminated from the top of each gantry, pointing upwards towards the sky.
This fixed-reactive component has an overhead gantry to which a frame is attached, and ride motions are fed through the axles and into the frame.

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