Chunking

Chunking

Chunking may mean:

  • Chunking (psychology), a short-term memory mechanism and techniques to exploit it
  • Chunking (writing), a method of splitting content into short, easily scannable elements, especially for web audiences
  • Chunking (computing), a memory allocation or message transmission procedure in computer programming
  • CHUNKING, an extension method of the Extended SMTP electronic mail protocol in computer networking
  • Chunking (computational linguistics), a method for parsing natural language sentences into partial syntactic structures
  • Chunking (division), an approach for doing simple mathematical division sums, by repeated subtraction
  • Chunking (music), a rhythm guitar technique
  • Pumpkin chunking, the activity of hurling pumpkins

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  • Chunking — Chunking,   Gedächtnis …   Universal-Lexikon

  • Chunking — Der Begriff des Chunking (im Deutschen manchmal frei mit Bündelung übersetzt) wurde 1956 von George A. Miller eingeführt. Die Chunking Hypothese beinhaltet Aussagen über den Umfang der Kurzzeitgedächtnisspanne, die nach Miller 7±2 Chunks beträgt… …   Deutsch Wikipedia

  • Chunking (psychology) — Chunking, in psychology, is phenomenon whereby individuals group responses when performing a memory task. Tests where individuals can illustrate chunking commonly include serial and free recall, as these both require the individual to reproduce… …   Wikipedia

  • Chunking (writing) — Chunking is a method of presenting information which splits concepts into small pieces or chunks of information to make reading and understanding faster and easier. Chunking is especially useful for material presented on the web because readers… …   Wikipedia

  • Chunking (music) — Chunking is a rhythm guitar technique in which the chord is muted by lifting the fretting fingers immediately after strumming. Alternatively, the bass note can be played and allowed to ring, with the remainder of the chord being chunked on the up …   Wikipedia

  • Chunking (computing) — In computer programming, chunking has multiple meanings. In memory management Typical modern software systems allocate memory dynamically from structures known as heaps. Calls are made to heap management routines to allocate and free memory. Heap …   Wikipedia

  • Chunking (division) — In mathematics education at primary school level, chunking (sometimes also called the partial quotients method) is an elementary approach for solving simple division questions, by repeated subtraction. To calculate the result of dividing a large… …   Wikipedia

  • chunking — noun a) A strategy for making more efficient use of short term memory by recoding information. b) A method of presenting information which splits concepts into small pieces or chunks of information to make reading and understanding faster and… …   Wiktionary

  • chunking — The process within short term memory of combining disparate items of information so that they take up as little as possible of the limited space in short term memory; e.g., combining into one percept the three individual letters making up the… …   Medical dictionary

  • chunking — adj. stocky n. formation of smaller units of information into large coordinated units …   English contemporary dictionary

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