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Definition thunk

Etymology 1

By analogy with past tenses and past participles ending in "-unk", such as drunk and sunk.

Verb

thunk

1. (humorous, nonstandard) past participle of think

Etymology 2

Onomatopoeic.

Interjection

thunk

1. 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)

1. To strike against something, without breakage, making a "thunk" sound.

Etymology 3

Said by the inventors to be from the irregular jocular past tense of think (see Etymology 1), being coined when they realised that the type of an argument in ALGOL 60 could be predetermined at compile time (with a little compile-time “thought”).

Noun

thunk (plural thunks)

1. (computing, functional programming) A delayed computation.
2. (computing) In the Scheme programming language, a function or procedure taking no arguments.
3. (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)

1. (computing, functional programming, transitive) To delay (a computation).
2. (computing, transitive) To map (machine data) from one system-specific form to another.

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