Nickel Definition

nĭkəl
nickeled, nickel, nickelled, nickels
noun
nickels
A hard, silver-white, malleable metallic chemical element, used extensively in alloys, batteries, and for plating because of its resistance to oxidation: symbol, Ni; at. no. 28
Webster's New World
A U.S. or Canadian coin made of an alloy of nickel and copper and equal to 5 cents.
Webster's New World
(US slang, by extension) Five dollars.
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(US slang, by extension) Five hundred dollars.
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(US slang, sometimes the nickel or the hot nickel) Interstate 5, a highway that runs along the west coast of the United States.
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Synonyms:
verb
nickeled, nickelled, nickel, nickels
To coat with nickel.
American Heritage
pronoun

A patronymic surname.

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Other Word Forms of Nickel

Noun

Singular:
nickel
Plural:
nickels

Origin of Nickel

  • From Swedish nickel, an abbreviation of German kupfernickel (“a mineral containing copper and nickel"), from koppar (“copper") + Nikolaus (“the devil") due to the deceptive silver colour of the relatively valueless ore. Compare cobalt as related to kobolds.

    From Wiktionary

  • Swedish short for kopparnickel niccolite partial translation of German Kupfernickel Kupfer copper Nickel demon, rascal, from the deceptive copper color of the ore (from the name Nikolaus Nicholas)

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • One of the variant spellings of Nichol, a Middle English vernacular form of the given name Nicholas.

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Nickel Sentence Examples

  • Small amounts of nickel and cobalt are often present.

  • At one point, Tiger Woods got a dime for every box of Wheaties cereal with his photo on it, while the farmer was paid only a nickel for the wheat in that same box—and the farmer still made a profit.

  • Taylor Jones showed in 1897 that only a small proportion of the contraction exhibited by a nickel wire when magnetized could be accounted for on Kirchhoff's theory from the observed effects of pulling stress upon magnetization; and in a more extended series of observations Nagaoka and Honda found wide quantitative divergences between the results of experiment and calculation, though in nearly all cases there was agreement as to quality.

  • Even under so " moderate " a load as 33 kilogrammes per square mm., the induced magnetization of a hard-drawn nickel wire in a field of 60 fell from 386 to 72 units, while the residual was reduced from about 280 to io.

  • It contains, however, more nickel and also phosphorus.

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Words Starting With

NNINIC

Words Ending With

LELKEL

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Words Starting With N and Ending With L

Starts With N & Ends With LStarts With NI & Ends With LStarts With N & Ends With EL

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6 Letter Words6 Letter Words Starting With N6 Letter Words Ending With L