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microchunk

microchunk noun: a very small piece.

Noun

microchunk (plural microchunks)

  1. A very small piece.
  2. Part of a product or service made available separately from its traditional package.

Verb

microchunk (third-person singular simple present microchunks, present participle microchunking, simple past and past participle microchunked)

  1. (transitive) To split up a product or service sold traditionally as a package.
    • If I were a television executive right now, I'd take my content, microchunk it, put a couple calls to a video ad server in the middle of it, and let it go wherever it wants to go.2005, November 5, Fred Wilson, "The Future of Media (aka Please Take My RSS Feed)", AVC (blog)

Forms of microchunk

Noun
pluralmicrochunks
Verb
third-person singular presentmicrochunks
present participlemicrochunking
past participlemicrochunked
pastmicrochunked

Origin of microchunk

From micro- + chunk.

Questions about microchunk

What does microchunk mean?
Microchunk means a very small piece.
What part of speech is microchunk?
Microchunk can be a noun or a verb.
What is the plural of microchunk?
The plural of microchunk is microchunks.

Words near microchunk in the dictionary

  1. microchromosomal
  2. microchromosome
  3. microchromosomes
  4. microchronometer
  5. microchronometers
  6. microchunk
  7. microchunked
  8. microchunking
  9. microchunks
  10. microcideries
  11. microcidery

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Adapted from Wiktionary: microchunk (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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