English Dictionary
◊ FICKLE
fickle
adj 1: marked by erratic changeableness in affections or
attachments; "fickle friends"; "a flirt's volatile
affections" [syn: {volatile}]
2: liable to sudden unpredictable change; "erratic behavior";
"fickle weather"; "mercurial twists of temperament"; "a
quicksilver character, cool and willful at one moment,
utterly fragile the next" [syn: {erratic}, {mercurial}, {quicksilver(a)}]
English Computing Dictionary
◊ DID YOU MEAN NICKLE?
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}.