Meaning thunk
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thunka humorous alternative to 'thought'Who would have thunk it!
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thunksound of impact, attested from 1952, echoic.
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thunkdialectal or jocular past tense or past participle of think, by 1876. Not historical, but by analogy of drink/drunk, sink/sunk, etc.
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thunk/thuhnk/ n. 1. "A piece of coding which provides an address", according to P. Z. Ingerman, who invented thunks in 1961 as a way of binding actual parameters to their formal definitions in Al [..]
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thunkInternet Glossary (v) In PCs, to convert a 16-bit memory address to a 32-bit address, and vice versa. Thunking is necessary because Intel's older 16-bit microprocessors used an addressing scheme called segmented memory, whereas their new 32-bit microprocessors use a flat address space. Windows 95 supports a thunk mechanism to enable 32-bit pro [..]
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thunk(v.) In PCs, to convert a 16-bit memory address to a 32-bit address, and vice versa. Thunking is necessary because Intel's older 16-bit microprocessors used an addressing scheme called segmented [..]
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thunk(n) a dull hollow sound
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thunkA thunk, in a general computing context, is a piece of low-level machine generated code, which implements the details of a software system. It is one of the following: A piece of code performing a del [..]
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