Chopping may refer to: *

Comminution Comminution is the reduction of solid materials from one average particle size to a smaller average particle size, by crushing, grinding, cutting, vibrating, or other processes. In geology, it occurs naturally during faulting in the upper part ...

, a crushing, grinding or similar size reduction of materials *

Cutting Cutting is the separation or opening of a physical object, into two or more portions, through the application of an acutely directed force. Implements commonly used for cutting are the knife and saw, or in medicine and science the scalpel and ...

Chopping (sampling technique) In dance music, dance or hip hop music sampling (music), sampling, chopping is the "altering fa sampled phrase (music), phrase r break (music), breakby dividing it into smaller segments and reconfiguring them in a different order." (Schloss ...

, a hip-hop sampling method. *

Virtual tuning Virtual tuning, colloquially known as 'chopping' or 'VTuning', is the 2D graphical modification of automobiles, with the use of raster graphics editing software. Modifications such as aerodynamic and aftermarket body-kits, wheels, front mount inte ...

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

rapid tapping with bow, used in jazz * Chopping, an instrumental technique to remove the background in astronomy

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