A gantry is an overhead bridge-like structure supporting equipment such as a crane, signals, or cameras.
Devices and structures
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Gantry (medical)
In a medical facility, such as a hospital or clinic, a gantry holds radiation detectors and/or a radiation source used to diagnose or treat a patient's illness. Radiation sources may produce gamma radiation, x-rays, electromagnetic radiation, or ...
, cylindrical scanner assembly used for medical 3D-imaging or treatment
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Gantry (transport)
A gantry (also known as a sign holder, road sign holder, sign structure or road sign structure) is a traffic sign assembly in which signs are mounted or railway signals are supported on an overhead support. They also often contain the apparatu ...
, an overhead assembly on which highway signs or railway signals are posted
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Gantry (rocketry)
A service structure is a steel framework or tower that is built on a rocket launch pad to facilitate assembly and servicing.
An umbilical tower also usually includes an elevator which allows maintenance and crew access. Immediately before igniti ...
, the frame which encloses and services a rocket at its launch pad
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Gantry crane
A gantry crane is a crane built atop a gantry, which is a structure used to straddle an object or workspace. They can range from enormous "full" gantry cranes, capable of lifting some of the heaviest loads in the world, to small shop cranes, us ...
, a crane having a hoist fitted in a trolley for parallel movement
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Rubber tyred gantry crane
A rubber tyred gantry crane / RTG (crane), or sometimes transtainer, is a wheeled mobile gantry crane operated to ground or stack intermodal containers. Inbound containers are stored for future pickup by drayage trucks, and outbound are stored f ...
, a mobile gantry crane used in intermodal operations
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Gantry tower
An anchor portal or H-frame tower is a gantry structure supporting overhead power lines in a switchyard. Their static function is similar to a dead-end tower. Anchor portals are almost always steel
Steel is an alloy made up of iron with a ...
or anchor portal, a structure commonly found in electrical substation or transmission line
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Scaffolding
Scaffolding, also called scaffold or staging, is a temporary structure used to support a work crew and materials to aid in the construction, maintenance and repair of buildings, bridges and all other man-made structures. Scaffolds are widely use ...
, occasionally referred to as a gantry when used as a support framework
Places
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Gantry Plaza State Park
Gantry Plaza State Park is a state park on the East River in the Hunters Point section of Long Island City, in the New York City borough of Queens. The park is located in a former dockyard and manufacturing district, and includes remnants of f ...
, in New York City
Arts, entertainment, and media
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Elmer Gantry
''Elmer Gantry'' is a satirical novel written by Sinclair Lewis in 1926 that presents aspects of the religious activity of America in fundamentalist and evangelistic circles and the attitudes of the 1920s public toward it. The novel's protagonis ...
'', a 1927 novel by Sinclair Lewis
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''Elmer Gantry'' (film), a 1960 film based on the novel
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''Gantry'' (musical), a 1970 musical by Peter Bellwood, Fred Tobias, and Stanley Lebowsky, based on the novel
See also
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Gentry (disambiguation)
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