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Nickel

Nickel Meaning & Definition
Nickel Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Nickel?

[n] a United States coin worth one twentieth of a dollar
[n] a hard malleable ductile silvery metallic element that is resistant to corrosion; used in alloys; occurs in pentlandite and smaltite and garnierite and millerite
[adj] priced at 5 cents; "I can still remember when a nickel ice-cream cone cost only 10 cents"
[adj] costing 5 dollars; slang for the price of unlawful drugs; "a nickel bag"
[v] plate with nickel; "nickel the plate"

Synonyms | Synonyms for Nickel: atomic number 28 | Ni | priced

Related Terms | Find terms related to Nickel: aureate | bar | brass | brassy | brazen | bronze | bronzy | buck | bullion | C | cartwheel | cent | century | C-note | coin gold | coin silver | copper | coppery | cupreous | cuprous | dime | dollar | dollar bill | ferrous | ferruginous | fifty cents | fin | fish | five cents | five hundred dollars | five-dollar bill | five-hundred-dollar bill | fiver | five-spot | four bits | frogskin | G | gilt | G-note | gold | gold nugget | golden | gold-filled | gold-plated | grand | half a C | half dollar | half G | half grand | hundred-dollar bill | ingot | iron | iron man | ironlike | lead | leaden | mercurial | mercurous | mill | nickelic | nickeline | nugget | penny | pewter | pewtery | precious metals | quarter | quicksilver | red cent | sawbuck | silver | silver dollar | silver-plated | silvery | skin | smacker | steel | steely | ten cents | tenner | ten-spot | thousand dollars | thousand-dollar bill | tin | tinny | twenty-dollar bill | twenty-five cents | two bits | two-dollar bill | two-spot | yard | yellow stuff

See Also | coin | garnierite | metal | metallic element | millerite | pentlandite | plate | smaltite

Nickel In Webster's Dictionary

\Nick"el\, n. [G., fr. Sw. nickel, abbrev. from Sw. kopparnickel copper-nickel, a name given in derision, as it was thought to be a base ore of copper. The origin of the second part of the word is uncertain. Cf. {Kupfer-nickel}, {Copper-nickel}.] 1. (Chem.) A bright silver-white metallic element. It is of the iron group, and is hard, malleable, and ductile. It occurs combined with sulphur in millerite, with arsenic in the mineral niccolite, and with arsenic and sulphur in nickel glance. Symbol Ni. Atomic weight 58.6. Note: On account of its permanence in air and inertness to oxidation, it is used in the smaller coins, for plating iron, brass, etc., for chemical apparatus, and in certain alloys, as german silver. It is magnetic, and is very frequently accompanied by cobalt, both being found in meteoric iron. 2. A small coin made of or containing nickel; esp., a five-cent piece. [Colloq. U.S.] {Nickel silver}, an alloy of nickel, copper, and zinc; -- usually called {german silver}; called also {argentan}.

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