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THUNK
thunk
(noun) a dull hollow sound; “the basketball made a thunk as it hit the rim”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology 1
Verb
thunk
(humorous, nonstandard) past participle of think
Etymology 2
Interjection
thunk
Representing the dull sound of the impact of a heavy object striking another and coming to an immediate standstill, with neither object being broken by the impact.
Verb
thunk (third-person singular simple present thunks, present participle thunking, simple past and past participle thunked)
To strike against something, without breakage, making a "thunk" sound.
Etymology 3
Noun
thunk (plural thunks)
(computing, functional programming) A delayed computation.
Coordinate term: closure
(computing) In the Scheme programming language, a function or procedure taking no arguments.
(computing) A mapping of machine data from one system-specific form to another, usually for compatibility reasons, such as from 16-bit addresses to 32-bit to allow a 16-bit program to run on a 32-bit operating system.
Verb
thunk (third-person singular simple present thunks, present participle thunking, simple past and past participle thunked)
(computing, functional programming, transitive) To delay (a computation).
(computing, transitive) To map (machine data) from one system-specific form to another.
Anagrams
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Source: Wiktionary
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