Meaning & use
Chunked
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Divided or broken into thick, solid pieces or manageable sections.
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She chunked the vegetables before adding them to the stew.
The tutorial chunked the lesson into five short, easy-to-follow steps.
A note on using this word
In computing, 'chunked' also describes information sent in separate pieces, as in 'chunked transfer encoding' used by web servers to stream data.
Words with a similar meaning
choppeddividedsegmented
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Words with an opposite meaning
combinedunified
Another way to use it
2. adjective
Relating to data sent or stored in separate segments rather than as one continuous stream.
The server used chunked encoding to stream the large file efficiently.
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