chunk

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Contents 1 English 1.1 Etymology 1.2 Pronunciation 1.3 Noun 1.3.1 Translations 1.3.2 See also 1.3.3 External links 1.4 Verb

[edit] English

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[edit] Etymology

Variant of chuck.

[edit] Pronunciation

• IPA: /ʧʌŋk/, SAMPA: /tSVNk/
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• Rhymes: -ʌŋk

[edit] Noun

chunk (plural chunks)

1. 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.

2. A representative of a substance at large, often large and irregular.

   A chunk of granite.

3. (computing) A discrete segment of a file, stream, etc. (especially one that represents audiovisual media); a block.

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[edit] See also

• piece
• bit
• lump
• chuck
• hunk

[edit] External links

• chunk in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
• chunk in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911

[edit] Verb

to chunk (third-person singular simple present chunks, present participle chunking, simple past and past participle chunked)

1. To break into large pieces or chunks.
2. (slang) esp. is southern U.S., to throw