Usually means: Deferred computation encapsulated in function.
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General (17 matching dictionaries)
  1. thunk: Merriam-Webster
  2. thunk, thunk: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. thunk, thunk: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. thunk: Collins English Dictionary
  5. thunk: Vocabulary.com
  6. Thunk, thunk: Wordnik
  7. thunk: Wiktionary
  8. thunk: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. thunk: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. thunk: Dictionary.com
  11. thunk (1): Online Etymology Dictionary
  12. Thunk (compatibility mapping), Thunk (delayed computation), Thunk (disambiguation), Thunk (functional programming), Thunk (object-oriented programming), Thunk (programming), Thunk: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. thunk: Rhymezone
  14. thunk: FreeDictionary.org
  15. thunk: Mnemonic Dictionary
  16. thunk: TheFreeDictionary.com
  17. thunk: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Computing (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. thunk: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. Webopedia (No longer online)
  3. Technopedia (No longer online)
  4. Thunk (data), thunk: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Ka-BOOM! Comicbook Words on Historical Principles (No longer online)

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. thunk: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Thunk, thunk: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See thunking as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (thunk)

verb:  To strike against something, without breakage, making a "thunk" sound.
noun:  (computing, functional programming) A delayed computation.
noun:  (computing) In the Scheme programming language, a function or procedure taking no arguments.
noun:  (computing) A specialized subroutine that one software module uses to execute code in another module.
verb:  (computing, functional programming, transitive) To delay (a computation).
verb:  (computing, transitive) To execute (code) by means of a thunk.

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