chassis

• châssis

Borrowed from French châssis, from châsse, from Latin capsa (“case”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈt͡ʃæsi/, /ˈʃæsi/

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  • Plural: IPA^(key): /ˈt͡ʃæsiz/, /ˈʃæsiz/, /ˈt͡ʃæsi/, /ˈʃæsi/

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• (General Australian) IPA^(key): /ˈʃæzi/
• Rhymes: -æsi, -æzi

chassis (plural chassis)

1. A base frame, or movable railway, along which the carriage of a mounted gun moves backward and forward.
2. The base frame of a vehicle, such as a motor vehicle.

   Coordinate term: coachwork

   • 1913, Robert Barr, chapter 2, in Lord Stranleigh Abroad‎^[1]:

     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, … .

   • 1958 September, Anthony A. Vickers, “The Winchburgh Shale Line”, in Railway Magazine, page 613:

     The Winchburgh Shale Line is of 2 ft. 6 in. gauge. The surface trucks or tubs are cuboidal metal boxes mounted on unsprung four-wheeled chassis.

3. A frame or housing containing electrical or mechanical equipment, such as on a computer.
4. (slang) A woman's buttocks.

• “chassis”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “chassis”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
• “chassis”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

• IPA^(key): /ʃa.si/

chassis m (invariable)

1. (North America) window

• “chassis”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012

From French châssis.

chassis n (definite singular chassiset, indefinite plural chassis or chassiser, definite plural chassisa or chassisene)

1. a chassis (underframe, especially of a vehicle)

• “chassis” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

From French châssis.

chassis n (definite singular chassiset, indefinite plural chassis, definite plural chassisa)

1. a chassis (underframe)

• “chassis” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

• Hyphenation: chas‧sis

chassis m (invariable)

1. alternative form of chassi

chassis

1. plural of chassi

• “chassis”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026

chassis

1. indefinite genitive singular of chassi