pounding vs thunk

pounding

adj
  • Characterized by heavy or loud throbs 

noun
  • An act in which something or someone is pounded. 

thunk

intj
  • 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. 

verb
  • To delay (a computation). 

  • To strike against something, without breakage, making a "thunk" sound. 

  • To execute (code) by means of a thunk. 

noun
  • A specialized subroutine that one software module uses to execute code in another module. 

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

  • A delayed computation. 

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