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callee

noun

Etymology

From call + -ee.

  1. derived from callis — “path”
  2. derived from caulae — “sheepfold”
  3. derived from calwe — “bald”
  4. suffixed as callee — “call + ee”

Definitions

  1. The person who is called by the caller (on the telephone).

  2. A function called by another.

    • The interpreter must provide for correctly resuming the caller when the callee has returned its value.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for callee. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA