chomp

plural chomps · alternative dated chump

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

   An IPv6 address is represented as eight hexadecimal chomps.

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   The Timico engineering team has started to use the word chomp to represent two bytes or the 4 Hex character block in IPv6.

   2011 March 22, Trefor Davies, “Bit Nibble Byte Chomp – a call to action”, in trefor.net

   Synonyms: hextet

present singular third person chomps · participle present chomping · participle past chomped · past chomped · alternative dated chump

1. ambitransitiveTo bite or chew loudly or heavily.

   The dog chomped on the treat and swallowed it in one gulp.

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   Before welcoming any new students to school, make sure they DEFINITELY ARE STUDENTS and not DANGEROUS ANIMALS IN DISGUISE trying to sneak into your school TO CHOMP EVERYONE.

   2016, David O’Doherty, “Danger at School”, in Danger Really Is Everywhere: School of Danger (Danger Is Everywhere; 3), London: Puffin Books, →ISBN, page 65

2. transitivecomputingTo remove the final character from (a text string) if it is a newline (or, less commonly, some other programmer-specified character).