thunk
Short definition from Wiktionary
Verb
- past participle of think
- To strike against something, without breakage, making a "thunk" sound.
- To delay (a computation).
- To execute (code) by means of a thunk.
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
- A delayed computation.
- 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.
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