(n.) A traversing base frame, or movable railway, along which the carriage of a barbette or casemate gun moves backward and forward. [See Gun carriage.]
Example Sentences:
(1) The RF voltage on certain parts on the chassis could be as high as 200 V. In order to reduce these voltages and the stray fields the machine should be equipped with a "large capacitive shield" in cases where this is possible.
(2) "High-tech transmission, chassis, suspension, all new interior, bucket seats, dash, 440 horsepower, 5.7-litre engine," he says, quick-fire, sounding every bit the used car salesman.
(3) These include the use of lightweight composite materials rather than steel in the chassis, and the company's plan to lease rather then sell their cars, something that removes a major financial barrier for the consumer.
(4) But the company’s carbon fibre chassis are currently manufactured abroad by a supplier.
(5) The McLaren F1 was the world’s first road car to be built with a carbon fibre chassis and every car built more recently by McLaren Automotive has the same.
(6) Once you have arranged eight blocks of drink, you hit the serve button, and the drink is mixed for you inside the chassis of an old PC; a pipe fed through the disk tray delivers the mixture into a cup.
(7) Amid the charred chassis and broken glass there is a vital point of principle to salvage: in certain conditions rioting is not just justified but may also be necessary, and effective.
(8) That’s why it is so urgent that the countries of Europe adopt very strong policies that will end the people smuggling trade across the Mediterranean.” While Hopkins was more concerned to appeal to the readership of “brilliant British truckers” who get fined if they’re caught with “feral humans” clinging to the chassis all the way from Calais, it’s only a matter of time before Abbott’s advice is taken up, and cruelty is presented as the only way to prevent further loss of life in the Med.
(9) The 5% tariff would be phased out over five years for windscreens, petrol car engines, batteries and chassis.
(10) They put the engine and the chassis together very late, in Jerez.
(11) The object reveals itself to be a monster truck painted in pastel colours, its chassis raised high above gargantuan tyres.
(12) Functional homology at the level of protein secondary structure with Actinomyces viscosus T14V type 1 fimbriae (M. K. Yeung, B. M. Chassy, and J. O. Cisar, J.
(13) In 2009 Meyer, a social psychologist at the University of Zurich, was fitted with an i-limb, a state-of-the-art bionic prosthesis developed by a Scottish company, Touch Bionics, that comes with an aluminium chassis and 24 different grip patterns.
(14) The issue of chassis leakage currents flowing through areas on the surfaces of patients' bodies is again being discussed, probably because of increasing acceptance of International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) Standard 601-1, the use of more instruments with computational capability but with generally higher chassis leakage currents at the bedside, the absence of evidence that the 500-microampere chassis current limitation of IEC 601-1 has been harmful, and the lack of data to substantiate the lower limit currently applied in the United States.
(15) In the past, items such as car chassis, fridges and household goods as well as tyres and Vélib hire bikes have been retrieved.
(16) Measurement of emissions of incomplete combustion products as determined on a chassis dynamometer provides knowledge of the chemical composition of the particle-associated organics.
(17) Born in postwar rationing, the Defender feels as quintessentially British as the Queen, Churchill or Bond, among the other national icons who have been plonked atop its unbending chassis.
(18) A few yards on, an official ran a mirror underneath the chassis and a large Alsatian dog sniffed around its wheels.
(19) The fabric seat is made from 62 post-consumer recycled drink bottles and the chassis from recycled polypropylene.
(20) A new one-compartmental movable disinfectant dA-4 unit mounted on the chassis of the motor car gA3-53-12 with high technical performance is characterized by the improved layout of the equipment and can be run in the foci of infection at any time of the year.
Kingbolt
Definition:
(n.) A vertical iron bolt, by which the forward axle and wheels of a vehicle or the trucks of a railroad car are connected with the other parts.