chunk
A part of something that has been separated.
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 portion of a substance, often large and irregular.
(linguistics, 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.
(video games) Deal a substantial amount of damage to an opponent.
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