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
  • 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