thunk

/θʌŋk/ · verb

Meaning

To strike against something, without breakage, making a "thunk" sound.
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.
(functional programming) A delayed computation.
In the Scheme programming language, a function or procedure taking no arguments.
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.
(functional programming) To delay (a computation).
To map (machine data) from one system-specific form to another.

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