chrome-nickel steel

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   Elinvar is a trademark for a kind of steel used for watch springs because its elasticity is constant over a wide range of temperatures

   SynonymsElinvar

   Broaderalloy steel

   trademark

Questions about chrome-nickel steel

What does chrome-nickel steel mean?

chrome-nickel steel means "Elinvar is a trademark for a kind of steel used for watch springs because its elasticity is constant over a wide range of temperatures".

What is another word for chrome-nickel steel?

Close synonyms include Elinvar. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is chrome-nickel steel a common word?

chrome-nickel steel is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.