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Definition of Nickel

1. Verb. Plate with nickel. "Nickel the plate"

2. Noun. A hard malleable ductile silvery metallic element that is resistant to corrosion; used in alloys; occurs in pentlandite and smaltite and garnierite and millerite.

3. Noun. A United States coin worth one twentieth of a dollar.

4. Noun. Five dollars worth of a drug. "A nickel deck of heroin"

Definition of Nickel

1. n. 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.

Definition of Nickel

1. Proper noun. (surname patronymic from=given names) ¹

2. Noun. A silvery elemental metal with an atomic number of 28 and symbol Ni. ¹

3. Noun. (US Canada countable) A coin worth 5 cents. ¹

4. Noun. (US slang sometimes'' '''the nickel''' ''or'' '''the hot nickel''') Interstate 5, a highway that runs along the west coast of the United States. ¹

5. Noun. (slang) A playing card with the rank of five ¹

6. Noun. (US slang) Five dollars. ¹

7. Noun. (US slang) Five hundred dollars. ¹

8. Verb. (transitive) To plate with nickel. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Nickel

1. to plate with nickel (a metallic element) [v -ELED, -ELING, -ELS or -ELLED, -ELLING, -ELS]

Medical Definition of Nickel

1. 1. 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. 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; especially, a five-cent piece. Nickel silver, an alloy of nickel, copper, and zinc; usually called german silver. Synonym: argentan. Origin: 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. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Nickel

nichromite nicing nicish nick nick-nack nick point nick translation nickar nickar nut nickar tree

nickars nickase nickases nicked nicked circle nickel nickel-and-dime nickel-and-dime(a) nickel-base alloy nickel-cadmium accumulator

nickel-in-the-slot nickel-iron-selenium hydrogenase nickel-iron accumulator nickel-iron battery nickel-iron hydrogenase nickel-rich nickel alloy nickel and dime nickel bag nickel bronze

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