Chopping may refer to: *

Chopping (astronomy) Chopping is a technique used with infrared telescopes to minimize interference from external or internal heat. The chopper is the mechanism that rocks a mirror (typically a secondary mirror) inside a telescope back and forth in rapid succession ...

, an instrumental technique to remove the background *

Chopping (sampling technique) In dance or hip hop music sampling, chopping is the "altering fa sampled phrase In grammar, a phrasecalled expression in some contextsis a group of words or singular word acting as a grammatical unit. For instance, the English language, Engli ...

, a hip-hop sampling method. *

Chopping (violin) Playing the violin entails holding the instrument between the jaw and the collar bone (see #Posture, below for variations of this posture). The strings are sounded either by drawing the Bow (music), bow across them (''Bow (music), arco''), or by ...

, rapid tapping with the bow, used in jazz * Chopping the blinds, in poker, when all players fold except the small and big blind, who take back their bets * Virtual tuning, also called chopping, graphical modification of images of automobiles with software

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