0 to crush hard food loudly between the teeth, or to make a sound as if something is being crushed or broken: --
1 the sound of hard food being crushed between the teeth, or like something being crushed or broken: --
2 a difficult situation that forces you to make a decision or do something: --
3 an exercise in which you lie on your back on the floor with your knees bent and your feet flat on the floor, and then raise your head and shoulders: --
Doing crunches every day strengthens your abdominal muscles.
4 to crush hard food loudly between the teeth, or to make a sound as if something is being crushed or broken: --
5 to calculate numbers or process information: --
The project seems worthwhile, but you have to crunch the numbers to see if it’s affordable.
They later categorized the searches and did some number crunching.
Do not attempt these bone crunching, skin splitting stunts under any circumstances.
Supercomputers are used for scientific and engineering problems (high-performance computing) which are data crunching and number crunching, while mainframes are used for transaction processing.
Any crunches completed after the two-minute time limit are not counted and do not add to the score.
The computer crunched numbers, not words, until writers saw it as the next writing machine.
The site builds data-driven tools and crunches numbers.
The ranking was produced by crunching state and national test data.
Similar to a half-tracked dune buggy, it has a pair of crunching spiked wheels at the front that lift on a single arm.
