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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The act of cutting or knocking off in small pieces.
  • noun The flying or breaking off in small pieces of the edges of pottery and porcelain.
  • noun A chip; a piece cut off or separated by a cutting or engraving instrument or by a blow; a fragment.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun A chip; a piece separated by a cutting or graving instrument; a fragment.
  • noun The act or process of cutting or breaking off small pieces, as in dressing iron with a chisel, or reducing a timber or block of stone to shape.
  • noun The breaking off in small pieces of the edges of potter's ware, porcelain, etc.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • verb Present participle of chip.
  • noun A fragment broken off of a larger material
  • noun The act of breaking something into small fragments, or of removing fragments from pottery etc.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun the act of chipping something

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