thunk
verbEtymology
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”).
Definitions
past participle of think
- Who would have thunk those guys would have a problem with a little lie?
- A skunk sat on a stump and thunk the stump stunk, but the stump thunk that the skunk stunk.
- I could think of things I never thunk before ...
Representing the dull sound of the impact of a heavy object striking another and coming…
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.
To strike against something, without breakage, making a "thunk" sound.
- I was thunked on the head by his stick.
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A delayed computation.
- Not surprisingly, a thunk is more expensive to store than a single number[…].
In the Scheme programming language, a function or procedure taking no arguments.
A specialized subroutine that one software module uses to execute code in another module.
- 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.
To delay (a computation).
To execute (code) by means of a thunk.
- This efficiency is offset by the fact that some of the calls made by Win32 apps must now be thunked down to 16 bits, something that isn't necessary in Windows NT and OS/2.
The neighborhood
- neighborthunking
Derived
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for thunk. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA