different between chroma vs chromium

Translingual

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ????? (khrôma, “color”)

Noun

chroma

1. (usually in combination) Color.

English

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ????? (khrôma, “color”)

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?k?o?m?/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?k???m?/
• Rhymes: -??m?
• Hyphenation: chro?ma

Noun

chroma (countable and uncountable, plural chromas)

1. The colorfulness relative to the brightness of a similarly illuminated area
2. The aspect of a colour's hue that depends on the amount of white or black in it; saturation
3. (music) A note in a chromatic scale

See also

• luma

Anagrams

• morcha

Irish

Adjective

chroma

1. Lenited form of croma.

Lower Sorbian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?xr?ma/

Adjective

chroma

1. feminine nominative singular of chromy

English

Etymology

New Latin, from French chrome (from Ancient Greek ????? (khrôma, “color”)) + -ium. So called because of the striking colors of its compounds.

Pronunciation

• (US) enPR: kr?'m??m IPA^(key): /?k?o?mi.?m/

Noun

chromium (countable and uncountable, plural chromiums)

2. A chemical element (symbol Cr) with an atomic number of 24: a steely-grey, lustrous, hard and brittle transition metal.

Synonyms

• chrome (when used for plating)

Derived terms

Related terms

Translations

See also

• green rouge

Further reading

• David Barthelmy (1997–2021) , “Chromium”, in Webmineral Mineralogy Database
• “chromium”, in Mindat.org?^[1], Hudson Institute of Mineralogy, 2000–2021.
• chromium in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• chromium in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• chromium at OneLook Dictionary Search

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?k?ro?.mi.um/, [?k??o?mi???]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?kro.mi.um/, [?k???mium]

Noun

chr?mium n (genitive chr?mi?); second declension

1. chromium

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).