Definitions for nickelˈnɪk əl
Random House Webster's College Dictionary
nick•elˈnɪk əl(n.; v.)-eled, -el•ing; -elled, -el•ling
(n.)a hard, silvery white, ductile and malleable metallic element, not readily oxidized: used in alloys and in electroplating.
Category: Chemistry
Ref: Symbol: Ni 1
a cupronickel coin of the U.S., equal to five cents.
Category: Numismatics
(v.t.)to coat with nickel.
Category: Metallurgy
(adj.)Slang. costing five dollars:
a nickel bag of heroin.
Category: Common Vocabulary, Status (usage)
Origin of nickel:
1745–55; < Sw, from kopparnickel < G Kupfernickel niccolite, lit., copper demon (so called because though looking like copper it yielded none)
Princeton's WordNet
nickel, Ni, atomic number 28(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
nickel(noun)
a United States coin worth one twentieth of a dollar
nickel, nickel note(verb)
five dollars worth of a drug
"a nickel bag of drugs"; "a nickel deck of heroin"
nickel(verb)
plate with nickel
"nickel the plate"
Kernerman English Learner's Dictionary
nickel(noun)ˈnɪk əl
a US and Canadian coin with a value of 5 cents
two nickels and a dime
nickelˈnɪk əl
a silver-colored metal that is a chemical element
coins made of nickel
Wiktionary
nickel(Noun)
A silvery elemental metal with an atomic number of 28 and symbol Ni.
nickel(Noun)
A coin worth 5 cents.
nickel(Noun)
Interstate 5, a highway that runs along the west coast of the United States.
nickel(Noun)
A playing card with the rank of five
nickel(Noun)
Five dollars.
nickel(Noun)
Five hundred dollars.
nickel(Verb)
To plate with nickel.
Origin: One of the variant spellings of Nichol, a vernacular form of the given name Nicholas.
Webster Dictionary
Nickel(noun)
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
Nickel(noun)
a small coin made of or containing nickel; esp., a five-cent piece
U.S. National Library of Medicine
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.
Translations for nickel
Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary
nickel(noun)
an element, a greyish-white metal used especially for mixing with other metals and for plating.
- nikkelAfrikaans
- نيكِلArabic
- никелBulgarian
- níquelPortuguese (BR)
- niklCzech
- das NickelGerman
- nikkelDanish
- νικέλιοGreek
- níquelSpanish
- nikkelEstonian
- نیکلFarsi
- nikkeliFinnish
- nickelFrench
- נִיקֶלHebrew
- गिलट, धातु विशेषHindi
- niklovatiCroatian
- nikkelHungarian
- nikelIndonesian
- nikkelIcelandic
- nichelItalian
- ニッケルJapanese
- 니켈Korean
- nikelisLithuanian
- niķelisLatvian
- menyadur dengan nikelMalay
- nikkelDutch
- nikkelNorwegian
- nikielPolish
- نیکلPersian
- نيكلPashto
- níquelPortuguese
- nichelRomanian
- никельRussian
- nikelSlovak
- nikeljSlovenian
- niklSerbian
- nickelSwedish
- ธาตุโลหะแข็งชนิดหนึ่งสีเงินThai
- nikelTurkish
- 鎳Chinese (Trad.)
- нікельUkrainian
- ايک قسم کي دھاتUrdu
- .nikenVietnamese
- 镍Chinese (Simp.)
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