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deckle
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/dekl/ , n. [from dec- and nybble ; the original spelling seems to have been
decle ] Two nickle s; 10 bits. Reported among developers for Mattel's GI
1600 (the Intellivision games processor), a chip with 16-bit-wide RAM but
10-bit-wide ROM. See nybble for other such terms.