Chunking

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Chunking may mean:

• Chunking (psychology), a short-term memory mechanism and techniques to exploit it
• Chunking (writing), a method of splitting content into short, easily scannable elements, especially for web audiences
• Chunking (computing), a memory allocation or message transmission procedure in computer programming
• Chunking (computational linguistics), a method for parsing natural language sentences into partial syntactic structures
• Pumpkin chunking, the activity of hurling pumpkins
• In the world of hard metal, guitarists may sometimes be found "chunking" out heavy, low-end riffs
• Euphemism for vomiting - also referred to as "blowing chunks"
• Chun King, a brand name of ConAgra corporation for its line of "Chinese"-style shelf-stable foods, many of them sold in the form of bi-pack (separate cans taped together containing components best left separate until meal preparation).
• Chungking (Chongqing), a large city in central China
• The process of reducing something to short, thick pieces of its former self. This is usually accomplished with a hammer or a crowbar.