thunk
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/θʌŋk/
English
Definitions
verb
- To strike against something, without breakage, making a "thunk" sound.“I was thunked on the head by his stick.”
interjection
- 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.
noun
- (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.
verb
- (functional programming) To delay (a computation).
- To map (machine data) from one system-specific form to another.