Chunking may mean: *

Chunking (division) In mathematics education at the primary school level, chunking (sometimes also called the partial quotients method) is an elementary approach for solving simple division questions by repeated subtraction. It is also known as the hangman method wit ...

, an approach for doing simple mathematical division sums, by repeated subtraction *

Chunking (computational linguistics) Shallow parsing (also chunking or light parsing) is an analysis of a sentence which first identifies constituent parts of sentences (nouns, verbs, adjectives, etc.) and then links them to higher order units that have discrete grammatical meanings ...

, a method for parsing natural language sentences into partial syntactic structures *

Chunking (computing) In computer programming, chunking has multiple meanings. 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. Hea ...

, a memory allocation or message transmission procedure or data splitting procedure in computer programming * Chunking (music), a rhythm guitar and mandolin technique *

Chunking (psychology) In cognitive psychology, chunking is a process by which small individual pieces of a set of information are bound together to create a meaningful whole later on in memory. The chunks, by which the information is grouped, are meant to improve shor ...

, a short-term memory mechanism and techniques to exploit it * Chunking (writing), a method of splitting content into short, easily scannable elements, especially for web audiences * CHUNKING, an extension method of the

Simple Mail Transfer Protocol The Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) is an Internet standard communication protocol for electronic mail transmission. Mail servers and other message transfer agents use SMTP to send and receive mail messages. User-level email clients typ ...

for delivering electronic mail in computer networking * Pumpkin chunking, the activity of hurling pumpkins

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