chassis
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- noun
- /ˈʃæsi/
- Specialized
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chasis
- Eventually, the team decided to bolt the wheels directly to the chassis and steer the tractor like a tank.
- chassis and cab
- chassis and engine
- chassis frames
Certainly this car, the chassis doesn't feel as stiff as it probably should.
- Certainly this car, the chassis doesn't feel as stiff as it probably should.
- But to your point, the chassis stiff as a button suspension super stiff.
- It's how do we fix the chassis so that we can make the car drive faster and faster?
- The basically this car was nothing more and nothing less then a really hot sexy body put on top of the chassis of the boring old Ford Falcon.
- But it's a it's a special made chassis for that full carbon fiber, which is a composite that race cars are made.
- Like I said, that was super fast, but it's the first chassis passy part.
Examples
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Certainly this car, the chassis doesn't feel as stiff as it probably should.
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We got extra weight on the chassis.
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And a lot of the sort of the chassis structure was just hand cut.
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It's how do we fix the chassis so that we can make the car drive faster and faster?
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The chassis was cut in half.
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I need to modify the chassis that it's in right now.
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So we're designing a whole extreme chassis for this car.
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The body panels are bolted onto the chassis to give the truck its customized finish.
Academic text (2013) -
Some older models are based on a Bedford chassis and cab (Fig. 4).
Academic text (2008) -
The body panels are bolted onto the chassis to give the truck its customized finish.
Synonyms
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2.5
A strong structure that holds a building, vehicle, or piece of furniture
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7.2
The parts under a car or plane that hold the wheels and support the vehicle
A hidden part under a vehicle or machine that gives it strength
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Etymology
Chassis comes from the French word châssis and the Latin word capsa meaning 'box', and it is related to the English word case. Think of a chassis as the 'box' or frame that holds a car's parts, which is why it means the vehicle's base frame.