GDict

chomp

tʃɒmp4 senses · 2 ms
Level C1
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noun/tʃɒmp//t͡ʃɑmp/
  1. 1

    The act of chomping (see below)

  2. 2

    A unit of computing storage equal to sixteen bits (two bytes), which can represent any of 65536 distinct values.rare

    • An IPv6 address is represented as eight hexadecimal chomps.
verb/tʃɒmp//t͡ʃɑmp/
  1. 1

    To bite or chew loudly or heavily.ambitransitive

    • The dog chomped on the treat and swallowed it in one gulp.
  2. 2

    To remove the final character from (a text string) if it is a newline (or, less commonly, some other programmer-specified character).transitive

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