chunk
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- IPA: /t͡ʃʌŋk/
chunk (plural chunks)
- A part of something that has been separated.
- The statue broke into chunks.
- A representative portion of a substance, often large and irregular.
- a chunk of granite
- (linguistics, education) A sequence of two or more words that occur in language with high frequency but are not idiomatic; a bundle or cluster.
- examples of chunks would include "in accordance with", "the results of", and "so far"
- (computing) A discrete segment of a file, stream, etc. (especially one that represents audiovisual media); a block.
- 1994, Paul J Perry, Multimedia developer's guide
- The first DWORD of a chunk data in the RIFF chunk is a four character code value identifying the form type of the file.
- 1994, Paul J Perry, Multimedia developer's guide
- (comedy) A segment of a comedian's performance
- French: pièce, morceau
- German: Stück
- Italian: pezzo, tocco
- Portuguese: pedaço
- Russian: кусо́к
- Spanish: trozo, pedazo
- French: fragment
chunk (chunks, present participle chunking; past and past participle chunked)
- (transitive) To break into large pieces or chunks.
- (transitive) To break down (language, etc.) into conceptual pieces of manageable size.
- (transitive, slang, chiefly, Southern US) To throw.
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