thunk

  1. Verb.  (context, humorous) (past participle of, think) .
  2. Interjection.  (non-gloss definition, Representing the sound of the impact of a heavy object striking another and coming to an immediate standstill, with neither object being broken by the impact) .
  3. Verb.  to strike against something, without breakage, making a "thunk" sound.
  4. Noun.  (context, computing) a delayed computation.
  5. Noun.  (computing) In the Scheme programming language, a function or procedure taking no arguments.
  6. Noun.  (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.

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