NICKEL SILVER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does nickel silver mean? 

• NICKEL SILVER (noun)
  The noun NICKEL SILVER has 1 sense:

1. a silver-white alloy containing copper and zinc and nickel

  Familiarity information: NICKEL SILVER used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• NICKEL SILVER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A silver-white alloy containing copper and zinc and nickel

Classified under:

Nouns denoting substances

Synonyms:

German silver; nickel silver

Hypernyms ("nickel silver" is a kind of...):

alloy; metal (a mixture containing two or more metallic elements or metallic and nonmetallic elements usually fused together or dissolving into each other when molten)