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deckle [n]

1)	rough edge left by a deckle on handmade paper or produced artificially on machine-made paper

Synonyms :

deckle_edge

See Also:

edge

2)	(paper making) a frame used to form paper pulp into sheets

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frame

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing: (http://www.foldoc.org/, Editor Denis Howe)

/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 RAM but 10-bit wide ROM.

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(1994-11-23)

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