noun
- plural of thunk: dull heavy sounds
- plural of thunk: units of computation in computer programming
Usage: computing
verb
- third person singular present of thunk: makes a dull heavy sound
Examples
- The heavy boxes made loud thunks as they hit the floor.
- She thunks the book down on the desk when she’s frustrated.
- The basketball thunks against the backboard repeatedly.
- We heard several thunks from upstairs during the move.
- The programmer used thunks to delay expensive calculations.
- Each thunk represents a suspended computation in the code.