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thunk

Pronunciation: /θʌŋk/

The English word “thunk” has 7 meanings listed here.

interjection

  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

  1. To strike against something, without breakage, making a "thunk" sound.
  2. To delay (a computation).
  3. To execute (code) by means of a thunk.

noun

  1. A delayed computation.
  2. In the Scheme programming language, a function or procedure taking no arguments.
  3. A specialized subroutine that one software module uses to execute code in another module.

Etymology

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

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