"nickel" Definition

Definitions for the word "nickel" from multiple English dictionaries.

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.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
2. n.
A small coin made of or containing nickel; esp., a five-cent piece.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
3. n.
1 silver-white metallic element, used esp. In magnetic alloys. 2 colloq. Us five-cent coin. [german]
Source: Oxford English Dictionary, 1884

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