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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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Four giant white spotlights were illuminated from the top of each gantry, pointing upwards towards the sky.
Surface wind at the time of the rollback of the gantry surrounding the Boeing Delta II launch vehicle was as high as 36 knots.
With the gantry crane on site, the new turbine is being unloaded and moved to its foundation.
It will also be integrated and assembled in the mobile gantry on the launch pad and not in a final assembly building.
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.
Floating cranes are used to load and unload non-self-sustaining containerships at ports that do not have gantry cranes.

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