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chunking

British  
/ 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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He can lash out unintentionally, so staff use a "chunking" technique where they concentrate learning into small segments of five minutes.

From BBC Aug. 21, 2023

But that’s how those games go, where you just keep chunking yardage and finding ways to get completions.”

From Seattle Times Oct. 25, 2022

The presentation was on a concept called periodization: the chunking of history into different periods.

From New York Times May 13, 2021

The benefit of "chunking" all of your goals into subgoals is that you can give yourself a pat on the back for each, which will make the next feel more manageable.

From Salon Apr. 30, 2021

I heard a chain sing from getting pulled taut and the bear-fighting dog’s paws hit me square in the side so strong that the last two chunking stones flewed out of my hand.

From "Elijah of Buxton" by Christopher Paul Curtis

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