thunk

Meaning of thunk

verb
  1. 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
  1. (functional programming) A delayed computation.
  2. In the Scheme programming language, a function or procedure taking no arguments.
  3. 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
  1. (functional programming) To delay (a computation).
  2. To map (machine data) from one system-specific form to another.

Information about thunk

  • The plural form of thunk is: thunks.
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Hyphenation of thunk

thunk

  • It consists of 1 syllables and 5 chars.
  • thunk is a word monosyllabic because it has one syllable

Anagrams of thunk

Knuth, knuth, Kuhnt

Words that rhyme with thunk

Hunk, hunk, chunk, kerchunk, bohunk, Shunk, Cuttyhunk, cuttyhunk

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