chassis

 

English Wikipedia has an article on:

chassis

Wikipedia

• châssis

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

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

  • Audio (General Australian):

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• 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 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.

• “chassis”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• “chassis”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
• “chassis”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

• IPA^(key): /ʃa.si/

chassis m (plural chassis)

1. (North America) window

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

 

Norwegian Wikipedia has an article on:

chassis

Wikipedia ^no

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.

Borrowed from French châssis.^[1][2]

• Hyphenation: chas‧sis

chassis m (invariable)

1. Alternative form of chassi

chassis

1. plural of chassi

chassis

1. indefinite genitive singular of chassi