Chunk vs Thunk - What's the difference?
chunk | thunk |
A part of something that has been separated.
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A representative of a substance at large, often large and irregular.
(computing) A discrete segment of a file, stream, etc. (especially one that represents audiovisual media); a block.
* 1994 , Paul J Perry, Multimedia developer's guide
(humorous, nonstandard)
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to strike against something, without breakage, making a "thunk" sound
(computing, functional programming) a delayed computation
(computing) In the Scheme programming language, a function or procedure taking no arguments.
(computing) 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.
* PC Mag (volume 14, number 17, 10 October 1995, page 326)
In computing|lang=en terms the difference between chunk and thunk
is that chunk is (computing) a discrete segment of a file, stream, etc (especially one that represents audiovisual media); a block while thunk is (computing) 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.As nouns the difference between chunk and thunk
is that chunk is a part of something that has been separated while thunk is (computing|functional programming) a delayed computation.As verbs the difference between chunk and thunk
is that chunk is to break into large pieces or chunks while thunk is (humorous|nonstandard) or thunk can be to strike against something, without breakage, making a "thunk" sound.As an interjection thunk is
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English
(wikipedia chunk)Noun
(en noun)- The statue broke into chunks .
- A chunk of granite .
- The first DWORD of a chunk data in the RIFF chunk is a four character code value identifying the form type of the file.
See also
* piece * bit * lump * chuck * hunkExternal links
* *thunk
English
Etymology 1
By analogy with past tenses and past participles ending in "-unk", such as drunk' and ' sunkVerb
(head)- Who would have thunk those guys would have a problem with a little lie?
Derived terms
* who'd have thunk itEtymology 2
OnomatopoeicVerb
(en verb)- I was thunked on the head by his stick.
Etymology 3
Claimed by the inventors to be from the supposed past tense, being coined when they realised after much thought (whence "thunk") that the type of an argument in could be predetermined at compile time; not, as is sometimes claimed, from the interjection, being the supposed sound made by data hitting the stack or an accumulatorNoun
(wikipedia thunk) (en noun)- If the provider of these DLLs has not updated the code to a 32-bit environment, you will have to switch to a new 32-bit library or write thunks between your 32-bit code and the 16-bit DLL.