Nimonic

English

Etymology

Trademark.

Noun

Nimonic (countable and uncountable, plural Nimonics)

1. Any of a family of nickel-based high-temperature low-creep superalloys, typically consisting of more than 50% nickel and 20% chromium with additives such as titanium and aluminium.
   • 1973, Tooling, volume 27, page 57:

     […] due to the trend, in recent years, towards the milling of more sophisticated materials such as Nimonics.