Microchunk

noun, verb

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A very small piece.
  2. 2
    Part of a product or service made available separately from its traditional package.
Verb
  1. 1
    To split up a product or service sold traditionally as a package. transitive

    "If I were a television executive right now, I'd take my content, microchunk it, put a couple calls to a video ad server in the middle of it, and let it go wherever it wants to go."

Example

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"If I were a television executive right now, I'd take my content, microchunk it, put a couple calls to a video ad server in the middle of it, and let it go wherever it wants to go."

Etymology

From micro- + chunk.

Related phrases

split up

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