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(1) füüsiline materjalitükk
Wiktionary:
1. a part of something that has been separated.
The statue broke into chunks
2. a representative portion of a substance, often large and irregular
a chunk of granite

(2) ISO/IEC 23001-14:
adresseeritav baidikogum segmendis
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addressable set of bytes of a partial segment
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chunk_(information)

(3) hajustöötluses:
ühele protsessorile saadetav
loogiliselt seotud andmekogum
=
a set of data which is sent to a processor or one of the parts of a computer for processing

(4) RFC 4960 (protokoll SCTP):
andmeüksus edastuspaketis,
sisaldab juhtteavet või kasutaja andmeid
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a unit of information within an SCTP packet, consisting of
a chunk header and chunk-specific content

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