English-French translations for chunk

• fragment
• pièce
• bloc
• morceau
  C'est un gros morceau de la base fiscale. That is a huge chunk of the tax base.
  J'ai l'impression que l'Assemblée jugerait qu'il s'agit là d'un morceau assez conséquent des ressources disponibles. I suspect that the House would regard that as rather a large chunk of the available funds.
  On peut l'entendre, parce que quand un gros morceau de glace se détache et tombe, on dirait un coup de tonnerre. You can hear it, because when a huge chunk of ice falls off, it sounds like a clap of thunder.

Definition of chunk

• A part of something that has been separated
• A representative portion of a substance, often large and irregular
• A sequence of two or more words that occur in language with high frequency but are not idiomatic; a bundle or cluster
• A discrete segment of a file, stream, etc. ; a block
• A segment of a comedian's performance
• To break into large pieces or chunks
• To throw

Examples

• The statue broke into chunks.
• a chunk of granite
• examples of chunks would include "in accordance with", "the results of", and "so far"

Related words

• chunky
• chunder
• chunter
• Changchun
• Taichung
• Chungyuan
• Fälschung
• Verfälschung
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