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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. Any of several soft, silvery antifriction alloys composed of tin usually with small amounts of copper and antimony.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. See metal.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. A soft white alloy of variable composition (as a nine parts of tin to one of copper, or of fifty parts of tin to five of antimony and one of copper) used in bearings to diminish friction.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. an alloy of tin with some copper and antimony; a lining for bearings that reduces friction

Etymologies

  1. After Isaac Babbitt (1799-1862), American inventor who patented such an alloy. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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