nickle

3 definitions found

nickle - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Nickle \Nic"kle\, n. (Zool.)
     The European woodpecker, or yaffle; -- called also nicker pecker
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     [1913 Webster]

nickle - Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (26 May 2007) :

  nickle
  
     /ni'kl/ ["nickel", common name for the US 5-cent coin] A
     nibble + 1; 5 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 also deckle.
  

nickle - Jargon File (4.4.4, 14 Aug 2003) :

  nickle
   /ni'kl/, n.
  
     [from `nickel', common name for the U.S. 5-cent coin] A nybble + 1;
     5 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 also deckle, and nybble for names of other
     bit units.