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crunch | undefined |

As a verb crunch

is to crush something, especially food, with a noisy crackling sound.

As a noun crunch

is a noisy crackling sound; the sound usually associated with crunching.

As an adjective undefined is

lacking a definition or value.

crunch

English

Verb

(es)
  • To crush something, especially food, with a noisy crackling sound.
  • * (Lord Byron) (1788-1824)
    • Their white tusks crunched o'er the whiter skull.
  • To be crushed with a noisy crackling sound.
  • (label) To calculate or otherwise process (e.g. to crunch numbers : to perform mathematical calculations).
  • To grind or press with violence and noise.
  • * Kane
    • The ship crunched through the ice.
  • *{{quote-book, year=1922, author=(Ben Travers)
    • , chapter=5, title= A Cuckoo in the Nest , passage=The departure was not unduly prolonged.
  • To emit a grinding or crunching noise.
  • * 1849 , (Henry James), ''
    • There were sounds in the air above his head – sounds of the crunching and rattling of the loose, smooth stones as his neighbors moved about
  • To compress (data) using a particular algorithm, so that it can be restored by decrunching.
  • * 1993 , "Michael Barsoom", [comp.sys.amiga.announce] PackIt Announcement'' (on newsgroup ''comp.archives )
    • PackIt will not crunch executables, unless told to do so.

    Noun

    (es)
  • A noisy crackling sound; the sound usually associated with crunching.
  • A critical moment or event.
  • * 1985 , John C. L. Gibson, Job (page 237)
    • The friends, on the contrary, argue that Job does not "know", that only God knows; yet, when it comes to the crunch , they themselves seem to know as much as God knows: for example, that Job is a guilty sinner.
  • (exercise) A form of abdominal exercise, based on a sit-up but in which the lower back remains in contact with the floor.

    • Derived terms

    * credit crunch * crunch time * reverse crunch

    Coordinate terms

    * (abdominal exercise) sit-up, trunk curl

    undefined

    English

    Adjective

    (wikipedia undefined) (-)
  • Lacking a definition or value.
  • (mathematics, computing) That does not have a meaning and is thus not assigned an interpretation.
    • The result of division by zero is undefined .

    Antonyms

    * defined