chunk🔊

A part of something that has been separated. +

A representative portion of a substance, often large and irregular.

(education) A sequence of two or more words that occur in language with high frequency but are not idiomatic; a bundle or cluster.

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

(comedy) 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.

(Southern US) To throw. +

(video games) Deal a substantial amount of damage to an opponent.

(type of spiral shell).