mischunk

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verb

To chunk incorrectly.

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Meanings

verbmischunk (third-person singular simple present mischunks, present participle mischunking, simple past and past participle mischunked)

present singular third person mischunks · participle present mischunking · participle past mischunked · past mischunked

  1. To chunk incorrectly.

    There is no longer any temptation to mischunk the text.

    1997, Rebecca E. Burnett, Technical Communication, page 216
    2 more examples

    We will present a number of examples suggesting this type of 'mischunking' below.

    1993, Robert Schreuder, Bert Weltens, The Bilingual Lexicon, page 204

    On the other hand, some PP-attachments are multiply ambiguous (they have more than two possible attachment sites) or occur fronted in a sentence-initial position, or a participant in the PP-relation is mistagged or mischunked.

    2003, G Schneider, “Learning to disambiguate syntactic relations”, in Computational Linguistics, volume 17, number 5

Origin

From mis- + chunk.

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APA

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MLA

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

Chicago

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

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