Meaning & use
chrome
A shiny, silvery metal coating, or chromium, the element used to produce it.
See it in a sentence
The old motorcycle's chrome exhaust pipe gleamed in the afternoon sun.
Years of exposure to salt air had begun to pit the car's chrome trim.
A note on using this word
Chrome is also the informal short name for Google's Chrome web browser, a completely separate, unrelated modern usage of the word.
Words with a similar meaning
chromium
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