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The definition of chrome is a grayish-white, very hard, metallic chemical element that doesn't erode easily.

(noun)

An example of chrome is the shiny metal plating over the bumper of a car.

Chrome means to plate with a very hard metal.

(verb)

An example of chrome is covering the bumper of a car with a layer of shiny hard metal.

See chrome in Webster's New World College Dictionary

noun

chromium or chromium alloy, esp. as used for plating
any of certain salts of chromium, used in dyeing and tanning
a chromium pigment

Origin: Fr: see chromium

transitive verb chromed, chroming

to plate with chromium
to treat with a salt of chromium, as in dyeing

color or coloring agent: urochrome
chromium: ferrochrome

Origin: < Gr chrōma: see chroma

See chrome in American Heritage Dictionary 4

noun

a. Chromium or a chromium alloy.
b. Something plated with a chromium alloy.
A pigment containing chromium.

transitive verb chromed chromed, chrom·ing, chromes

To plate with chromium.
To tan or dye with a chromium compound.

Origin:

Origin: French

Origin: , from Greek khrōma, color (from the brilliant colors of chromium compounds)

suffix

Colored: polychrome.
Color; pigment: urochrome.

Origin:

Origin: From Greek khrōma, color

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