microchunk

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noun

A very small piece.

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Meanings

nounmicrochunk (plural microchunks)

plural microchunks

  1. A very small piece.
  2. businessPart of a product or service made available separately from its traditional package.
verbmicrochunk (third-person singular simple present microchunks, present participle microchunking, simple past and past participle microchunked)

present singular third person microchunks · participle present microchunking · participle past microchunked · past microchunked

  1. transitivebusinessTo split up a product or service sold traditionally as a package.

    If I were a television executive right now, I'd take my content, microchunk it, put a couple calls to a video ad server in the middle of it, and let it go wherever it wants to go.

    2005, November 5, Fred Wilson, "The Future of Media (aka Please Take My RSS Feed)", AVC (blog)

Origin

From micro- + chunk.

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APA

microchunk. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/microchunk

MLA

“microchunk.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/microchunk. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “microchunk,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/microchunk.

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