chassis
English
Alternative forms
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈtʃæsi/, /ˈʃæsi/
- Plural: IPA(key): /ˈtʃæsiz/, /ˈʃæsiz/
- (General Australian) IPA(key): /ˈʃæzi/
Audio (AU) (file)
- Rhymes: -æsi, -æzi
Noun
chassis (plural chassis)
- A base frame, or movable railway, along which the carriage of a mounted gun moves backward and forward.
- The base frame of a motor vehicle.
- 1913, Robert Barr, chapter 2, in Lord Stranleigh Abroad:
- The door being open, Stranleigh walked in unannounced. A two-seated runabout […] stood by the window, where it could be viewed by passers-by. Further down the room rested a chassis, … .
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- A frame or housing containing electrical or mechanical equipment, such as on a computer.
- (slang) A woman's buttocks.
Translations
base frame of motor vehicle
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Further reading
- chassis in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- chassis in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
- chassis at OneLook Dictionary Search
Norwegian Bokmål
Noun
chassis n (definite singular chassiset, indefinite plural chassis or chassiser, definite plural chassisa or chassisene)
- a chassis (underframe, especially of a vehicle)
Norwegian Nynorsk
Swedish
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