chomp

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English

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Etymology

U.S. regional variation of champ (verb), from Middle English champen, chammen (“to bite; gnash”).

(computing storage unit): An allusion to byte, which sounds like bite.

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /tʃɒmp/
  • (US) enPR: chŏmp, IPA(key): /t͡ʃɑmp/
  • Audio (US):(file)
  • Hyphenation: chomp
  • Rhymes: -ɒmp

Noun

chomp (plural chomps)

  1. The act of chomping (see below)
  2. (computing, rare) A unit of computing storage equal to sixteen bits (two bytes), which can represent any of 65536 distinct values.
    Synonym: hextet
    An IPv6 address is represented as eight hexadecimal chomps.
    • 2011 March 22, Trefor Davies, “Bit Nibble Byte Chomp – a call to action”, in trefor.net:
      The Timico engineering team has started to use the word chomp to represent two bytes or the 4 Hex character block in IPv6.

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Verb

chomp (third-person singular simple present chomps, present participle chomping, simple past and past participle chomped)

  1. (intransitive) To bite or chew loudly or heavily.
    The dog chomped on the treat and swallowed it in one gulp.
  2. (computing, transitive, Perl) To remove the final character from (a text string) if it is a newline (or, less commonly, some other programmer-specified character).
    Coordinate term: chop

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