Meaning & use

chrome

noun·Everyday

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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