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1. (n.) nickel
a hard, silvery white, ductile and malleable metallic element, not readily oxidized: used in alloys and in electroplating.
2. nickel
a cupronickel coin of the U.S., equal to five cents.
3. (v.t.) nickel
to coat with nickel.
4. (adj.) nickel
Slang. costing five dollars:
a nickel bag of heroin.
Etymology: (1745–55; < Sw, from kopparnickel < G Kupfernickel niccolite, lit., copper demon (so called because though looking like copper it yielded none))
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Princeton's WordNet |
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1. (noun) nickel, Ni, atomic number 28
a hard malleable ductile silvery metallic element that is resistant to corrosion; used in alloys; occurs in pentlandite and smaltite and garnierite and millerite
2. (noun) nickel
a United States coin worth one twentieth of a dollar
3. (verb) nickel, nickel note
five dollars worth of a drug
"a nickel bag of drugs"; "a nickel deck of heroin"
4. (verb) nickel
plate with nickel
"nickel the plate"
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1. (noun) nickel
a US and Canadian coin with a value of 5 cents
two nickels and a dime
2. nickel
a silver-colored metal that is a chemical element
coins made of nickel
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Webster Dictionary |
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1. (noun) Nickel
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
2. (noun) Nickel
a small coin made of or containing nickel; esp., a five-cent piece
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U.S. National Library of Medicine |
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1. Nickel
A trace element with the atomic symbol Ni, atomic number 28, and atomic weight 58.69. It is a cofactor of the enzyme UREASE.
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Sense: an element, a greyish-white metal used especially for mixing with other metals and for plating.
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 Arabic: نيكِل |
 Bulgarian: никел |
 Brazilian: níquel |
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 Estonian: nikkel |
 Farsi: نیکل |
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 French: nickel |
 Hebrew: נִיקֶל |
 Hindi: गिलट, धातु विशेष |
 Croatian: niklovati |
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 Indonesian: nikel |
 Icelandic: nikkel |
 Italian: nichel |
 Japanese: ニッケル |
 Korean: 니켈 |
 Lithuanian: nikelis |
 Latvian: niķelis |
 Malay: menyadur dengan nikel |
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 Pashto: نيكل |
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 Romanian: nichel |
 Russian: никель |
 Slovak: nikel |
 Slovenian: nikelj |
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 Swedish: nickel |
 Thai: ธาตุโลหะแข็งชนิดหนึ่งสีเง |
 Turkish: nikel |
 Taiwanese: 鎳 |
 Ukrainian: нікель |
 Urdu: ايک قسم کي دھات |
 Vietnamese: .niken |
 Chinese: 镍 |
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