Definition of "nichrome" [nichrome]

• Alternative capitalization of Nichrome (noun)

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• "These two requirements eliminate the cast iron pot, although many are used, thus leaving us to select from malleable castings, wrought iron, cast steel, and special alloys, such as nichrome or silchrome."
• "Heater bodies, ready to be wrapped in nichrome; nozzles perhaps, made as they used to make clay pipes?"
• "Quickly, she pulled on her thermal suit, an intricate web of nichrome filaments that would keep her body comfortably warm even in near-freezing water."