chassis

See also: Chassis and châssis

English

Alternative forms

• châssis

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtʃæsi/, /ˈʃæsi/
  • Plural: IPA^(key): /ˈtʃæsiz/, /ˈʃæsiz/
• (Australia) IPA^(key): /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, 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, … .

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

Translations

base frame, or movable railway

• Bulgarian: платформа (bg) f (platforma)

base frame of motor vehicle

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

  Mandarin: 底盤 (zh), 底盘 (zh) (dǐpán)

• 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)
• Italian: châssis m
• Japanese: シャシ (shashi), シャーシ (shāshi), シャシー (shashī)
• Korean: 섀시 (syaesi)

• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: chassis n

  Nynorsk: chassis n

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

  Cyrillic: шасија f

  Roman: šasija (sh) f

• Slovak: podvozok m
• Spanish: chasis (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

• Finnish: runko (fi); asennuspohja; kaappi (fi); räkki (fi)
• German: Gehäuse (de) n
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: chassis n

  Nynorsk: chassis n

• Polish: obudowa (pl) f

Further reading

• 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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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.

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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.

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Swedish

Noun

chassis

1. indefinite genitive singular of chassi