Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗noun
The act of chomping (see below) · A unit of computing storage equal to sixteen bits (two bytes), which can represent any of 65536 distinct values.
verb
Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryTo bite or chew loudly or heavily. · To remove the final character from (a text string) if it is a newline (or, less commonly, some other programmer-specified character).
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.
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- Inherited-form mentionchampenenm
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