chass isとは 意味・読み方・使い方

別の表記

• châssis

語源

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

発音

• (singular)
  • (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA: /ˈt͡ʃæ.si/, /ˈʃæ.si/
  • (Standard Southern British, Northern England, Scotland, Wales) IPA: /ˈt͡ʃa.sɪj/, /ˈʃa.sɪj/
  • (Australia) IPA: /ˈʃæzi/
• (plural)
  • (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA: /ˈt͡ʃæ.siz/, /ˈʃæ.siz/, /ˈt͡ʃæ.si/, /ˈʃæ.si/
  • (Standard Southern British, Northern England, Scotland, Wales) IPA: /ˈt͡ʃa.sɪjz/, /ˈʃa.sɪjz/, /ˈt͡ʃa.sɪj/, /ˈʃa.sɪj/
• 韻: -æsi, -æzi
• ハイフネーション: chas‧sis

名詞

chassis (plural chassis)

1. The base frame of a vehicle, such as a motor vehicle.

   Coordinate term: coachwork

   Near-synonym: undercarriage

   • 1913, Robert Barr, chapter 2, in Lord Stranleigh Abroad‎:

     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.

2. A frame or housing containing electrical or mechanical equipment, such as on a computer.
3. A base frame, or movable railway, along which the carriage of a mounted gun moves backward and forward.
4. (slang) A woman's buttocks.

   Coordinate term: undercarriage

派生語

Further reading

• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin Eli Smith, editors (1895–1910), “chassis”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
• “chassis”, in Merriam-Webster.com Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
• “chassis”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• “chassis, n.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.
• “chassis”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.