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GANTRY
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Dictionary entry overview: What does gantry mean?
• GANTRY (noun)
The noun GANTRY has 1 sense:
1. a framework of steel bars raised on side supports to bridge over or around something; can display railway signals above several tracks or can support a traveling crane etc.
Familiarity information: GANTRY used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A framework of steel bars raised on side supports to bridge over or around something; can display railway signals above several tracks or can support a traveling crane etc.
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Synonyms:
gantry; gauntry
Hypernyms ("gantry" is a kind of...):
frame; framework (a structure supporting or containing something)
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