Chomp

Noun

Definitions

1.NounThe act of chomping

2.NounA 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."

3.VerbTo bite or chew loudly or heavily.

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

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

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