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Definition of 'thunk'English
Etymology 1
By analogy with past tenses and past participles ending in "-unk", such as drunk' and ' sunk
Verb
( head)
(humorous|nonstandard)
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- Who would have thunk those guys would have a problem with a little lie?
Derived terms
* who'd have thunk it
Etymology 2
Onomatopoeic
Verb
( en-verb)
to strike against something, without breakage, making a "thunk" sound
- I was thunked on the head by his stick.
Etymology 3
Claimed by the inventors to be from the supposed past tense, being coined when they realised after much thought (whence "thunk") that the type of an argument in could be predetermined at compile time; not, as is sometimes claimed, from the interjection, being the supposed sound made by data hitting the stack or an accumulator
Noun
( wikipedia)
( en-noun)
(computing|functional programming) a delayed computation
(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.
* PC Mag (volume 14, number 17, 10 October 1995, page 326)
- If the provider of these DLLs has not updated the code to a 32-bit environment, you will have to switch to a new 32-bit library or write thunks between your 32-bit code and the 16-bit DLL.
Related terms
* thunking
Similar to 'thunk'think, tank, thank, twink, tonk, twonk, tunk, tink, tanoak, tunick, thwonk, tonick, thnk, thinck, twank
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