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   chunk

   /tʃʌŋk/

   noun

   • 1. a thick, solid piece of something: "huge chunks of masonry littered the street"
   • ▪ a significant amount of something: "she invested a chunk of her inheritance in the stock market"
   • ▪ a section of information or data.

   verb

   • 1. divide (something) into chunks: North American "chunk four pounds of pears"
   • ▪ throw (something): informal "chunk a piece of wood on the fire, will you?"
   • 2. (in psychology or linguistic analysis) group together (connected items or words) so that they can be stored or processed as single concepts: "pupils are able to chunk phrases or propositions into units"
   • ▪ divide (data) into separate sections: "to prepare hypertext, information is chunked into small, manageable units"

   Word Origin late 17th century: apparently an alteration of chuck3.

   Scrabble Points: 14

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