chunk
/t͡ʃʌŋk/ · noun
Meaning
- A part of something that has been separated.
- A representative portion of a substance, often large and irregular.
- A sequence of two or more words that occur in language with high frequency but are not idiomatic; a bundle or cluster.
- A discrete segment of a file, stream, etc. (especially one that represents audiovisual media); a block.
- A segment of a comedian's performance
- To break into large pieces or chunks.
- To break down (language, etc.) into conceptual pieces of manageable size.
- To throw.
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