noun. A silvery, hard, ductile, ferromagnetic metallic element used in corrosion-resistant alloys, stainless steel, catalysts for hydrogenation, and batteries, and for electroplating. Atomic number 28; atomic weight 58.69; melting point 1,455°C; boiling point 2,913°C; specific gravity 8.902; valence 0, 1, 2, 3. cross-reference: Periodic Table.

noun. A coin of the United States or Canada worth five cents.

transitive verb. To coat with nickel.

To plate or coat, as metal surfaces, with nickel, either by electrolytic processes or by chemical operations.

noun. Chemical symbol, Ni; atomic weight, 58. A metal closely related to cobalt, with which it almost always occurs.

noun. In the United States, a current coin representing the value of five cents, made of an alloy of one part of nickel to three of copper.

Consisting of or covered with nickel.

noun. A bright silver-white metallic element of atomic number 28. 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 58.70.

noun. A small coin made of or containing nickel; esp., a five-cent piece.

noun. an alloy of nickel, copper, and zinc; -- usually called german silver; called also argentan.

noun. A silvery elemental metal with an atomic number of 28 and symbol Ni.

noun. A coin worth 5 cents.

noun. Five dollars.

noun. Five hundred dollars.

noun. Interstate 5, a highway that runs along the west coast of the United States.

noun. A playing card with the rank of five

noun. A five-year prison sentence.

verb. To plate with nickel.

noun. five dollars worth of a drug

verb. plate with nickel

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

noun. a United States coin worth one twentieth of a dollar

"They produce on the whole nearly as much copper as nickel, but the nickel is the important substance."

antimonial nickel  christofle's method of nickel-smelting  false copper  garnierite  grain-nickel  

kupfernickel  niccolite  nife  nitinol  

coin  five dollar bill  five-spot  fiver  metal  

Mikel  Nicol  brickle  ferronickel  fickle  

aluminium  arsenic  beryllium  boron  cadmium  

C  C-note  G  G-note  aureate  

nickelled  nickelling  

nickelled  nickelling  nickels