chassis
(ʃæsi )
language note: chassis (ʃæsiz ) can also be used as the plural form.
countable noun
A chassis is the framework that a vehicle is built on.
It had a brilliant chassis and the handling was incredible.
Image of chassis
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Collocations:
steel chassis
Newfangled ideas such as steel chassis are not wanted here - each car has its frame laboriously whittled from ash.
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Its ingredients are supercar start-up classics: a space-frame tubular steel chassis, with aluminium honeycomb flooring adding strength and a chrome-molybdenum subframe behind the cockpit.
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Customers will be able to choose bodywork fashioned from aluminium or carbon fibre, which will cloak a steel chassis.
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This year the tubular steel chassis were covered in corrugated plastic and painted by pupils before they learnt to drive the cars on their test track — the playground.
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It's built around a stainless steel chassis, has a claimed top speed of 30mph and will cover about 45 miles on a full charge.
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Translations:
Chinese: 底盘车辆
Japanese: シャシー
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