chomp

The act of chomping (see below)

Noun

  1. The act of chomping (see below)
  2. A 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.
    • 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

Origin

U.S. regional variation of champ (verb), from Middle English champen, chammen (“to bite; gnash”). (computing storage unit): An allusion to byte, which sounds like bite.

Forms

chomps chump

Derived

chompy midchomp

Verb

  1. To bite or chew loudly or heavily.
    • The dog chomped on the treat and swallowed it in one gulp.
    • 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”,...
  2. To remove the final character from (a text string) if it is a newline (or, less commonly, some other programmer-specified character).

    Coordinate Terms: chop

Forms

chomps chomping chomped chump

Derived

chomp at the bit chomp down on chomper cigar-chomping