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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A silvery, hard, corrosion-resistant, ductile, malleable alloy of copper, nickel, and often zinc, used in tableware and as a structural material for hospital and restaurant equipment.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One of the many names of the alloy best known in English as German silver, and in German as Nevsilber. See
German silver , under silver.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A hard, corrosion-resistant
alloy ofcopper ,zinc andnickel used to make domesticsilverware .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a silver-white alloy containing copper and zinc and nickel
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