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Chassis   /tʃˈæsi/   Listen
Chassis

noun
(pl. chassis)
1.
Alternative names for the body of a human being.  Synonyms: anatomy, bod, build, figure, flesh, form, frame, human body, material body, physical body, physique, shape, soma.  "He has a strong physique" , "The spirit is willing but the flesh is weak"
2.
A metal mounting for the circuit components of an electronic device.
3.
The skeleton of a motor vehicle consisting of a steel frame supported on springs that holds the body and motor.



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"Chassis" Quotes from Famous Books



... The earlier armoured cars used by the Belgians were built at the great Minerva factory in Antwerp and consisted of a circular turret, high enough so that only the head and shoulders of the man operating the machine-gun were exposed, covered with half-inch steel plates and mounted on an ordinary chassis. After the disastrous affair near Herenthals, in which Prince Henri de Ligne was mortally wounded while engaged in a raid into the German lines for the purpose of blowing up bridges, it was seen that the crew of the auto-mitrailleuses, as the armoured cars were called, was insufficiently ...
— Fighting in Flanders • E. Alexander Powell
... make a stunning thing of it," he remarked, eying the huge chassis critically. "All this—deviltry—whatever it is inside of me—must come out somehow. And that canvas is the place for it." He laughed and sat ...
— The Common Law • Robert W. Chambers


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