callee

See also: čällee

English

Etymology

call +‎ -ee

Noun

callee (plural callees)

(telephony) The person who is called by the caller (on the telephone).
(programming) A function called by another.
- 1975, Gerald Jay Sussman and Guy L. Steele, Jr., Scheme: An Interpreter for Extended Lambda Calculus, MIT AI Lab, page 24:
  The interpreter must provide for correctly resuming the caller when the callee has returned its value.

Translations

the person who is getting called by the caller

Czech: volaný
Finnish: soitettava (fi)
French: appelé (fr) m
Italian: chiamato (it) m
Russian: вызыва́емый (ru) (vyzyvájemyj) абоне́нт (ru) (abonént)
Spanish: llamado (es) m, llamada (es) f

See also

collect call

Anagrams

cellae

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