MONOCOQUE
- (French) an aircraft structure in which the outer skin carries all or most of the torsional and bending stresses; a car structure in which the body is integral with and shares the stresses with the chassis [n -S]
- a type of construction (as of a fuselage) in which the outer skin carries all or a major part of the stresses
- type of vehicle construction (as of an automobile) in which the body is integral with the chassis