Chunking
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Chunking may mean:
- Chunking (psychology)Chunking (psychology)Chunking, in psychology, is a phenomenon whereby individuals group responses when performing a memory task. Tests where individuals can illustrate "chunking" commonly include serial and free recall, as these both require the individual to reproduce items that he or she had previously been...
, a short-term memory mechanism and techniques to exploit it - Chunking (writing)Chunking (writing)Chunking is a method of presenting information which splits concepts into small pieces or "chunks" of information to make reading and understanding faster and easier...
, a method of splitting content into short, easily scannable elements, especially for web audiences - Chunking (computing)Chunking (computing)-In memory management:Typical modern software systems allocate memory dynamically from structures known as heaps. Calls are made to heap-management routines to allocate and free memory. Heap management involves some computation time and can be a performance issue...
, a memory allocation or message transmission procedure in computer programming - CHUNKING, an extension method of the Extended SMTPExtended SMTPExtended SMTP , sometimes referred to as Enhanced SMTP, is a definition of protocol extensions to the Simple Mail Transfer Protocol standard...
electronic mail protocol in computer networking - Chunking (computational linguistics), a method for parsing natural language sentences into partial syntactic structures
- Chunking (division)Chunking (division)In mathematics education at primary school level, chunking is an elementary approach for solving simple division questions, by repeated subtraction....
, an approach for doing simple mathematical division sums, by repeated subtraction - Chunking (music)Chunking (music)Chunking is a rhythm guitar technique in which the chord is muted by lifting the fretting fingers immediately after strumming. Alternatively, the bass note can be played and allowed to ring, with the remainder of the chord being "chunked" on the up beat...
, a rhythm guitar technique - Pumpkin chunkingPumpkin chunkingPumpkin Chucking, or for rhyming purposes Pumpkin Chunking is the sport of hurling or 'chucking' a pumpkin by mechanical means for distance...
, the activity of hurling pumpkins
See also
- Chongqing (disambiguation)Chongqing (disambiguation)Chongqing is the modern Pinyin transliteration for the Chinese city Chongqing. It was previously commonly known in the West by the name Chungking, Chongking, or Chung King...
, which includes its variants Chungking and Chung King, both common misspellings of this word