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), cylindrical scanner assembly used for medical 3D-imaging or treatment
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Gantry (transport), an overhead assembly on which highway signs or railway signals are posted
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Gantry (rocketry), the frame which encloses and services a rocket at its launch pad
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Gantry crane
A gantry crane is a Crane (machine), crane built atop a wikt:gantry, 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 wor ...
, a crane having a hoist fitted in a trolley for parallel movement
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Rubber tyred gantry crane, a mobile gantry crane used in intermodal operations
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Gantry tower
An anchor portal or H-frame tower is a wikt:gantry, gantry structure supporting overhead power lines in a Electrical substation, switchyard. Their static function is similar to a dead-end tower. Anchor portals are almost always steel-tube or stee ...
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 human-made structures. Scaffolds are widely u ...
, occasionally referred to as a gantry when used as a support framework
Places
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Gantry Plaza State Park, in New York City
Arts, entertainment, and media
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Elmer Gantry'', 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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