gantry
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- noun
- /ˈɡæntri/
- Specialized
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puente grúa
- The crew's crossing gantry for capsule ingress.
- gantry cranes
- gantry robot
- gantry angles
And for the first time they installed a gantry in the port in Mumbai called the Mazagon Docks.
- And for the first time they installed a gantry in the port in Mumbai called the Mazagon Docks.
- And start shaking this gantry that is suspended over the road from side to side and I can see plumes of dust like coming from the bolts, like rust snapping.
- And what, wait, what I did was just a series of of winches and the winches go out to the center and at a point there's we set a, a, a gantry.
Examples
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Clear the gantry.
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Two Japanese technicians accompany her as she heads toward the main gantry elevator.
Fiction book (1997) -
The other big change is the weight of the gantry cross members.
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Meet me on the gantry in five minutes.
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The gantry is now moving back.
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I want that emergency response team up on the gantry.
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Crews, stand by on gantry.
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The crew is now in the gantry access arm... where they're preparing to enter the spacecraft.
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The machine that does this crafting is actually a large gantry robot that weighs less than 500 pounds.
Academic text (2010) -
The construction crew set up a gantry to support the heavy equipment over the worksite.
Synonyms
A large steel frame above tracks that holds lights, cables or a crane
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Etymology
The word gantry is easy to remember if you picture a strong metal 'frame' or 'bridge' that sits above a work site to carry a crane or signal lights. So a gantry is a raised structure that 'holds' heavy equipment across tracks or buildings.