thunking

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noun

The use of thunks (data mappings).

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Meanings

nounthunking (uncountable)
  1. uncountablecomputingThe use of thunks (data mappings).

    DLLs are greatly affected by this thunking mechanism.

    1995, Kathleen Panov, Larry Salomon, Arthur Panov, The Art of OS/2 Warp Programming
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    But if you have a copy of Visual Basic version 4 hanging around, thunking is easy.

    1997, Bruce McKinney, Hardcore Visual Basic

    Most runtimes (including the CLR) provide a way to integrate with C-based libraries through a thunking layer.

    2003, Don Box, Chris Sells, Essential.NET: The Common Language Runtime
verb
  1. gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of thunk

Translations

French translation, mappage
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Rhymes & wordplay

Anagrams

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APA

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MLA

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Chicago

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