chassis

See also Chassis, and châssis

English

Wikipedia

Alternative forms

• châssis

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˈtʃæsi/, /ˈʃæsi/
• (Australia) IPA: /ˈʃæzi/
• Rhymes: -æsi, -æzi

Noun

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 motor vehicle.
   • 1913, Robert Barr, chapter 2, 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, … .

3. A frame or housing containing electrical or mechanical equipment, such as on a computer.

Translations

A base frame, or movable railway

• Bulgarian: платформа (bg) (platforma) f

base frame of motor vehicle

• Arabic: شاصي (ar)
• Belarusian: шасі (be) (šasí) n
• Bulgarian: шаси (bg) (šasí) n
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 底盤 (cmn), 底盘 (cmn) (dìpán)

• Czech: podvozek (cs) m, šasi (cs) n
• Finnish: alusta (fi)
• French: châssis (fr) m
• German: Chassis (de) n, Fahrgestell (de) n
• Greek: σασί (el) (sasí) n
• Hungarian: alváz (hu)
• Italian: châssis (it) m
• Japanese: シャシ (ja) (shashi), シャーシ (ja) (shāshi), シャシー (ja) (shashī)

• Korean: 섀시 (ko) (syaesi)
• Polish: podwozie (pl) n
• Portuguese: chassi (pt) m
• Russian: шасси (ru) (šassí) n
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: шасија (sh) f

  Roman: šasija (sh) f

• Slovak: podvozok (sk) m
• Spanish: chasis (es) m
• Ukrainian: шасі (uk) (šasí) n
• Vietnamese: sát-xi (vi), khung gầm (vi)

A frame or housing containing electrical or mechanical equipment

• Finnish: asennuspohja

• Polish: obudowa (pl) f

External links

• chassis in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
• chassis in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
• chassis at OneLook Dictionary Search

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French

Noun

chassis m

1. (Acadian) window

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Swedish

Noun

chassis

1. indefinite genitive singular of chassi