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chomp

Pronunciation: /tʃɒmp/

The English word “chomp” has 4 meanings listed here.

noun

  1. The act of chomping (see below)
  2. A unit of computing storage equal to sixteen bits (two bytes), which can represent any of 65536 distinct values.

verb

  1. To bite or chew loudly or heavily.
  2. To remove the final character from (a text string) if it is a newline (or, less commonly, some other programmer-specified character).

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.

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