Dictionary

A part of something that has been separated.

Example: The statue broke into chunks.

A representative portion of a substance, often large and irregular.

Example: a chunk of granite

A sequence of two or more words that occur in language with high frequency but are not idiomatic; a bundle or cluster.

Example: examples of chunks would include "in accordance with", "the results of", and "so far"

A discrete segment of a file, stream, etc. (especially one that represents audiovisual media); a block.

To break into large pieces or chunks.

To break down (language, etc.) into conceptual pieces of manageable size.

To throw.