chassis

See also: Chassis and châssis

English

Alternative forms

• châssis

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• 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

Noun

chassis (plural chassis)

The chassis of a bus (2)

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.

Derived terms

• chassised
• chassisless
• hot chassis
• Thunderbolt chassis

Translations

base frame, or movable railway

• Bulgarian: платформа (bg) f (platforma)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 底盤 / 底盘 (zh) (dǐpán)

• Czech: ložiště n
• Hungarian: lövegtalp (hu)
• Macedonian: платфо́рма f (platfórma)
• Portuguese: chassi (pt) m, chassis (pt) m pl

base frame of motor vehicle

• Arabic: شَاصِي (šāṣī), هَيْكَل m (haykal)

  Gulf Arabic: شاصي m (šāṣī)

  Hijazi Arabic: شاسيه m (šāsē)

• Belarusian: шасі́ n (šasí)
• Bulgarian: шаси́ (bg) n (šasí)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 底盤 / 底盘 (zh) (dǐpán), 車架 / 车架 (zh) (chējià)

• Czech: podvozek m, šasi n
• Danish: chassis n
• Esperanto: ĉasio
• Faroese: undirgrind f, undirstell n
• Finnish: alusta (fi), runko (fi)
• French: châssis (fr) m
• German: Chassis (de) n, Fahrgestell (de) n
• Greek: σασί (el) n (sasí)
• Hungarian: alváz (hu), váz (hu)
• Indonesian: sasis (id)
• Italian: châssis m
• Japanese: シャシ (shashi), シャーシ (ja) (shāshi), シャシー (shashī)
• Korean: 섀시 (syaesi)
• Latin: capsa f
• Macedonian: ша́сија f (šásija)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: chassis n

  Nynorsk: chassis n

• Polish: podwozie (pl) n
• Portuguese: chassi (pt) m, chassis (pt) m
• Romanian: șasiu (ro)
• Russian: шасси́ (ru) n (šassí)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: шасија f

  Latin: šasija (sh) f

• Slovak: podvozok m
• Spanish: chasis (es) m, chasís (es) m
• Swedish: chassi (sv) n
• Tagalog: tsasis
• Thai: แชสซี (th) (chaetsi)
• Ukrainian: шасі́ n (šasí)
• Vietnamese: sát-xi, khung gầm

frame or housing containing electrical or mechanical equipment

• Bulgarian: корпус (bg) m (korpus)
• Czech: kostra (cs) f
• Danish: chassis n
• Finnish: runko (fi); asennuspohja; räkki (fi)
• German: Gehäuse (de) n
• Hungarian: doboz (hu), keret (hu), váz (hu), ház (hu), szerelvénylap, alaplemez (hu)
• Indonesian: sasis (id)
• Kazakh: тұрқы (tūrqy)
• Macedonian: ко́рпус m (kórpus)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: chassis n

  Nynorsk: chassis n

• Polish: obudowa (pl) f
• Portuguese: chassi (pt) m, chassis (pt) m or m pl
• Swedish: chassi (sv) n

Further reading

• “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.

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʃa.si/

Noun

chassis m (invariable)

1. (North America) window

Further reading

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

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From French châssis.

Noun

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

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

References

• “chassis” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From French châssis.

Noun

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

1. a chassis (underframe)

References

• “chassis” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Portuguese

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ʃaˈsis/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ʃaˈsis/
  • (Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): /ʃaˈsiʃ/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ʃaˈsiʃ/

• Hyphenation: chas‧sis

Etymology 1

Noun

chassis m (invariable)

1. alternative form of chassi

Etymology 2

Noun

chassis

1. plural of chassi

Further reading

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

Swedish

Noun

chassis

1. indefinite genitive singular of chassi