Callback

Quick meaning: Callback is a noun meaning The return of a situation to a previous position or state; a reference to such a position or state.

Meaning

The return of a situation to a previous position or state; a reference to such a position or state.

More Meanings

1. (telephony) A return telephone or radio call; especially one made automatically to authenticate a logon to a computer network.
2. A product recall because of a defect or safety concern.
3. (programming) A function pointer passed as an argument to another function.
4. (theater) A follow-up audition in casting.
5. (business) A follow-up interview in employment recruiting.
6. (comedy) A joke which references an earlier joke in the same routine.
7. A form of audience participation in which the audience shout lines in response to the dialog of a film.

Example Sentences

For example, multiple callbacks might be made to a nonanswered number to increase the response rate.

Apparent on this disc is the problem that plagues every recording of the score: Without an audience full of rowdy geeks screaming out callbacks, Rocky Horror feels incomplete.

Historically, all viable frameworks have always provided a mechanism to implement callbacks. C# goes one step further and encapsulates callbacks into callable objects called delegates.

Aiden Gillen whimpers on his knees, stretching for the first time in years. And finally Sansa sentences him, and Arya swings the sword, or dagger as the case may be. For all the historical callbacks in the episode, and in its old age Game Of Thrones keeps portentously reciting old lines verbatim, this callback is the most resonant. Ned always said the man who passes the sentence should swing the sword. His daughters are finding a different way forward.

Word Forms

• callbacks
• call-back

Synonyms for callback

Depending on context, synonyms include hark-back.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include return, returning, refoulement, refund, recall, repayment.

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