thunk

A dull, hollow sound.

To make a dull, hollow sound.

Past participle of think

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.

to strike against something, without breakage, making a “thunk” sound

a delayed computation

In the Scheme programming language, a function or procedure taking no arguments.

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.

a dull hollow sound