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• châssis

語源

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

発音

(singular)

• (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA: /ˈt͡ʃæsi/, /ˈʃæsi/
• (Standard Southern British, Northern England, Scotland, Wales) IPA: /ˈt͡ʃasɪj/, /ˈʃasɪj/
• (General Australian) IPA: /ˈʃæzi/

(plural)

• (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA: /ˈt͡ʃæsiz/, /ˈʃæsiz/, /ˈt͡ʃæsi/, /ˈʃæsi/
• (Standard Southern British, Northern England, Scotland, Wales) IPA: /ˈt͡ʃasɪjz/, /ˈʃasɪjz/, /ˈt͡ʃasɪj/, /ˈʃasɪj/

• 韻: -æsi, -æzi

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

• “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.