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• chrome yellow — n [U] a very bright yellow colour >chrome yellow adj …   Dictionary of contemporary English

• chrome — ► NOUN 1) chromium plate as a finish. 2) (before another noun ) denoting compounds or alloys of chromium: chrome steel. DERIVATIVES chromed adjective. ORIGIN Greek khr ma colour (some chromium compounds having brilliant colours) …   English terms dictionary

• Colour Index — Le Colour Index International est une base de données de référence maintenue conjointement par la Society of Dyers and Colourists et par l American Association of Textile Chemists and Colorists. Elle a été imprimée pour la première fois en 1925… …   Wikipédia en Français

• colour — /kul euhr/, n., adj. v.t., v.i. Chiefly Brit. color. Usage. See or1. * * * I Aspect of any object that may be described in terms of hue, brightness, and saturation. It is associated with the visible wavelengths of electromagnetic radiation, which …   Universalium

• chrome — [19] Compounds formed from the element chromium are brilliantly coloured green, red, and yellow. Hence, when it was first described by the French chemist Vauquelin in 1797, he named it chrome, after Greek khrōma ‘colour’. This was soon latinized… …   The Hutchinson dictionary of word origins

• chrome — [19] Compounds formed from the element chromium are brilliantly coloured green, red, and yellow. Hence, when it was first described by the French chemist Vauquelin in 1797, he named it chrome, after Greek khrōma ‘colour’. This was soon latinized… …   Word origins

• chrome — n. 1 chromium, esp. as plating. 2 (in full chrome yellow) a yellow pigment obtained from lead chromate. Phrases and idioms: chrome leather leather tanned with chromium salts. chrome nickel (of stainless steel) containing chromium and nickel.… …   Useful english dictionary

• chrome — /kroʊm / (say krohm) noun 1. chromium, especially as a source of various pigments, as chrome yellow and chrome green. 2. Dyeing the dichromate of potassium or sodium. –verb (t) (chromed, chroming) 3. Dyeing to subject to a bath of dichromate of… …  

• chrome — noun 1》 chromium plate as a decorative or protective finish. 2》 [as modifier] denoting compounds or alloys of chromium: chrome steel. Derivatives chromed adjective Origin C19: from Fr., from Gk khrōma colour (some chromium compounds having… …   English new terms dictionary

• chrome yellow — noun (U) a very bright yellow colour …   Longman dictionary of contemporary English

• chrome yellow — UK / US noun [uncountable] a bright yellow pigment (= a substance added to something to give it colour) …   English dictionary