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chunking

/ ˈtʃʌŋkɪŋ /

noun

  1. psychol the grouping together of a number of items by the mind, after which they can be remembered as a single item, such as a word or a musical phrase
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Example Sentences

If the ferry had any spirit at all, some day it would just switch about and go chunking out to sea.

Except for a fishing dory chunking out to its day's work, Ben had the sea and land to himself.

He drummed his fingers on top of the machine for a moment and then it stopped chunking and something inside it went clunk.

The chunking of the screw affected me also, but I seemed to relate it to a former and pleasing experience.

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