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