chunks

/tสƒสŒล‹ks/

IPA: /CH AH1 NG K S/

noun
  1. 1

    A part of something that has been separated.

    โ€œThe statue broke into chunks.โ€

  2. 2

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

    โ€œa chunk of graniteโ€

  3. 3

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

    โ€œexamples of chunks would include "in accordance with", "the results of", and "so far"โ€

  4. 4

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

  5. 5

    A segment of a comedian's performance

verb
  1. 1

    To break into large pieces or chunks.

  2. 2

    To break down (language, etc.) into conceptual pieces of manageable size.

  3. 3

    To throw.

Source: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/chunk, https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/chunks