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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Any of several soft, silvery antifriction alloys composed of tin usually with small amounts of copper and antimony.
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- noun A soft white
alloy of variable composition (as a nine parts oftin to one ofcopper , or of fifty parts of tin to five ofantimony and one of copper) used inbearings to diminishfriction .
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[After Isaac Babbitt, (1799–1862), American inventor who patented such an alloy.]
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Named after inventor Isaac Babbitt.
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