Usually means: A substantial, distinct piece or part.
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We found 37 dictionaries that define the word chunk:

General (28 matching dictionaries)
  1. chunk: Merriam-Webster
  2. chunk, chunk: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. chunk: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. chunk: Collins English Dictionary
  5. chunk: Vocabulary.com
  6. Chunk, chunk: Wordnik
  7. chunk: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. chunk: Wiktionary
  9. chunk: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. chunk: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. chunk: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Chunk, chunk: Dictionary.com
  13. chunk: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. chunk: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Chunk (Toy Story 3), Chunk (comics), Chunk (information), Chunk: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Chunk: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. chunk: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. chunk: Rhymezone
  19. chunk: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. chunk: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. CHUNK: Dictionary of Americanisms (1848)
  22. chunk: FreeDictionary.org
  23. chunk: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. chunk: TheFreeDictionary.com
  25. chunk: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  26. chunk: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. chunk: Legal dictionary

Computing (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Webopedia (No longer online)
  2. Technopedia (No longer online)
  3. chunk: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. CHUNK: Acronym Finder
  2. chunk: Idioms

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Chunk (offensive): Racial Slur Database
  2. chunk, chunk, chunk, chunk: Green’s Dictionary of Slang

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Chunk: Dictionary of Candlemaking Terms

(Note: See chunking as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  A part of something that has been separated.
noun:  A representative portion of a substance, often large and irregular.
noun:  (linguistics, education) A sequence of two or more words that occur in language with high frequency but are not idiomatic; a bundle or cluster.
noun:  (computing) A discrete segment of a file, stream, etc. (especially one that represents audiovisual media); a block.
noun:  (comedy) A segment of a comedian's performance.
verb:  (transitive) To break into large pieces or chunks.
verb:  (transitive) To break down (language, etc.) into conceptual pieces of manageable size.
verb:  (transitive, slang, chiefly Southern US) To throw.
verb:  (transitive, video games) Deal a substantial amount of damage to an opponent.
noun:  Archaic form of chank (“type of spiral shell”). [(India) The large spiral shell of several species of sea conch, much used in making bangles, especially Turbinella pyrum.]

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