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chromo

UK/ˈkɹəʊməʊ/

chromo noun: a color print produced by chromolithography.

Noun (1)

chromo (plural chromos)

  1. (historical) A color print produced by chromolithography.
    • All Nature is smiling, in fact, with one large, comprehensive smile, exactly like a first-class PRANG chromo with a fresh coat of varnish upon it.1870, Various, Punchinello Vol. 1, No. 21, August 20, 1870
    • It was manifest that we all felt that we ought to send the poor shoemaker SOMETHING. There was long and thoughtful discussion of this point; and we finally decided to send him a chromo.1883, Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens), Life on the Mississippi

Noun (2)

chromo (plural chromos)

  1. (Australia) A prostitute.
    • That dried-up lady snob lived behind lace curtains all her life. She's of no more importance than a chromo.1970, John Glassco, Memoirs of Montparnasse, New York, published 2007, page 81

Adjective

chromo (not comparable)

  1. Of or relating to the chromodomain, a protein structural domain associated with chromatin production
    • HP1 shares an ~50-amino acid NH 2 -terminal sequence motif, the chromo domain, with polycomb, an important regulatory gene that functions in the stable repression of homeotic genes during Drosophila development (28 ).1998 April 24, Angus I. Lamond, William C. Earnshaw, “Structure and Function in the Nucleus”, in Science, volume 280, number 5363, →DOI, pages 547–553
    • To determine whether the conserved domains, the chromo, SET, and cysteine-rich regions, were also critical for Clr4 HMTase activity, we tested mutant Clr4 proteins for HMTase activity.2001 April 6, Jun-ichi Nakayama et al., “Role of Histone H3 Lysine 9 Methylation in Epigenetic Control of Heterochromatin Assembly”, in Science, volume 292, number 5514, →DOI, pages 110–113

chromo meaning in Tamil

chromo in Tamil

வண்ணக்கல் அச்சு

Forms of chromo

pluralchromos

Origin of chromo

Shortened from chromolithograph.

Shortened from chromodomain.

Questions about chromo

What does chromo mean?
Chromo means a color print produced by chromolithography.
What is chromo in Tamil?
Chromo in Tamil is வண்ணக்கல் அச்சு. See Chromo meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is chromo?
Chromo can be a noun or an adjective.
How do you pronounce chromo?
Chromo is pronounced /ˈkɹəʊməʊ/ (UK).
What is the plural of chromo?
The plural of chromo is chromos.

Words near chromo in the dictionary

  1. chromiums
  2. chromize
  3. chromized
  4. chromizes
  5. chromizing
  6. chromo
  7. chromo-
  8. chromo-carbon
  9. chromoalveolate
  10. chromoanagenesis
  11. chromoanagenetic

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