decay n.,vi
[from nuclear physics] An automatic conversion which is
applied to most array-valued expressions in C; they `decay into' pointer-valued expressions
pointing to the array's first element. This term is borderline
techspeak, but is not used in the official standard for the
language.
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deckle /dek'l/ n.
[from dec- and nybble; 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. See nybble for other such terms.