chunk
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English [edit]
Etymology [edit]
Variant of chuck.
Pronunciation [edit]
Noun [edit]
chunk (plural chunks)
- A part of something that has been separated.
- The statue broke into chunks.
- 1910, Jack London, Burning Daylight:
- Daylight, between mouthfuls, fed chunks of ice into the tin pot, where it thawed into water. ... Daylight cut up generous chunks of bacon and dropped them in the pot of bubbling beans.
- A representative of a substance at large, often large and irregular.
- A chunk of granite.
- (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
Translations [edit]
a part of something
See also [edit]
External links [edit]
- chunk in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
- chunk in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
Verb [edit]
chunk (third-person singular simple present chunks, present participle chunking, simple past and past participle chunked)
