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chunks

/tʃʌŋks/ · noun

Meaning

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

Etymology / origin

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Sources

  1. DictionaryAPI.dev English dictionary data
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