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 games with blinds, chopping the blinds is a custom that may occur when all other players fold to the blinds before the flop. The blinds then remove their bets, ending the hand. Chopping the blinds is a common occurrence in live ring game ...

, in poker, when all players fold except the small and big blind, who take back their bets *

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

, also called chopping, graphical modification of images of automobiles with software

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