/dek' l/ (From "dec-" and "niBBle" the original spelling seems to have Been "decle") Two nickles 10 Bits. Reported among developers for Mattel' s GI 1600 (the Intellivision games processor), a chip with 16-Bit wide RAMBut 10-Bit wide ROM. [Jargon File] (1994-11-23)