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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>nybble</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="../../jargon.css" type="text/css"/><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.61.0"/><link rel="home" href="../index.html" title="The Jargon File"/><link rel="up" href="../N.html" title="N"/><link rel="previous" href="NUXI-problem.html" title="NUXI problem"/><link rel="next" href="nyetwork.html" title="nyetwork"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">nybble</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="NUXI-problem.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">N</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="nyetwork.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="nybble"/><dt xmlns="" id="nybble"><b>nybble</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="pronunciation">/nib´l/</span>, <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="firstterm">nibble</span>, <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> [from <span class="grammar">v.</span> <span class="firstterm">nibble</span> by analogy with &#8216;bite&#8217;
&#8594; &#8216;byte&#8217;] Four bits; one <a href="../H/hex.html"><i class="glossterm">hex</i></a> digit;
a half-byte. Though &#8216;byte&#8217; is now techspeak, this useful
relative is still jargon. Compare <a href="../B/byte.html"><i class="glossterm">byte</i></a>; see also
<a href="../B/bit.html"><i class="glossterm">bit</i></a>. The more mundane spelling &#8220;<span class="quote">nibble</span>&#8221;
is also commonly used. Apparently the &#8216;nybble&#8217; spelling is
uncommon in Commonwealth Hackish, as British orthography would suggest the
pronunciation <span class="pronunciation">/ni:´bl/</span>.</p><p>Following &#8216;bit&#8217;, &#8216;byte&#8217; and
&#8216;nybble&#8217; there have been quite a few analogical attempts to
construct unambiguous terms for bit blocks of other sizes. All of these
are strictly jargon, not techspeak, and not very common jargon at that
(most hackers would recognize them in context but not use them
spontaneously). We collect them here for reference together with the
ambiguous techspeak terms &#8216;word&#8217;, &#8216;half-word&#8217;,
&#8216;double word&#8217;, and &#8216;quad&#8217; or <span class="firstterm">quad word</span>; some (indicated) have substantial
information separate entries.</p><div class="informaltable"><table border="1"><colgroup><col/><col/></colgroup><tbody><tr><td>2 bits:</td><td><a href="../C/crumb.html"><i class="glossterm">crumb</i></a>, <a href="../Q/quad.html"><i class="glossterm">quad</i></a>, <a href="../Q/quarter.html"><i class="glossterm">quarter</i></a>, tayste, tydbit, morsel</td></tr><tr><td>4 bits:</td><td>nybble</td></tr><tr><td>5 bits:</td><td><a href="nickle.html"><i class="glossterm">nickle</i></a></td></tr><tr><td>10 bits:</td><td><a href="../D/deckle.html"><i class="glossterm">deckle</i></a></td></tr><tr><td>16 bits:</td><td>playte, <a href="../C/chawmp.html"><i class="glossterm">chawmp</i></a> (on a 32-bit machine), word (on a 16-bit machine),
half-word (on a 32-bit machine).</td></tr><tr><td>18 bits:</td><td><a href="../C/chawmp.html"><i class="glossterm">chawmp</i></a> (on a 36-bit machine), half-word (on a 36-bit machine)</td></tr><tr><td>32 bits:</td><td>dynner, <a href="../G/gawble.html"><i class="glossterm">gawble</i></a> (on a 32-bit machine), word (on a 32-bit machine),
longword (on a 16-bit machine).</td></tr><tr><td>36 bits:</td><td>word (on a 36-bit machine)</td></tr><tr><td>48 bits:</td><td><a href="../G/gawble.html"><i class="glossterm">gawble</i></a> (under circumstances that remain obscure)</td></tr><tr><td>64 bits:</td><td>double word (on a 32-bit machine)
quad (on a 16-bit machine)</td></tr><tr><td>128 bits:</td><td>quad (on a 32-bit machine)</td></tr></tbody></table></div><p>The fundamental motivation for most of these jargon terms (aside from
the normal hackerly enjoyment of punning wordplay) is the extreme ambiguity
of the term <span class="firstterm">word</span> and its
derivatives.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="NUXI-problem.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../N.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="nyetwork.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">NUXI problem </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> nyetwork</td></tr></table></div></body></html>