Chunk boundary
The point where text is split to fit a token limit.
What Chunk boundary does not show
A split between a premise and its conclusion leaves both halves less usable, and the split is made by the engine, not by you — which is why short self-contained passages survive it better.
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Questions about Chunk boundary
What is Chunk boundary?
The point where text is split to fit a token limit.
What does Chunk boundary not show or guarantee?
A split between a premise and its conclusion leaves both halves less usable, and the split is made by the engine, not by you — which is why short self-contained passages survive it better.
Which area of the glossary does Chunk boundary belong to?
Answer engines and retrieval: How a generated answer gets made, and what your page is competing for inside it.
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