callable

English

Etymology

call + -able

Adjective

callable (not comparable)

  1. (programming) That can be called.
    • 1989, Angel Alvarez, Ada: The Design Choice:
      The list of server tasks is a compromise between only one task for all remotely callable subprograms and one task for each remotely callable subprogram.
    • 2010, Trey Nash, Accelerated C# 2010, page xxvi:
      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.
  2. (finance) That may be redeemed by its holder before it matures.

Derived terms

Noun

callable (plural callables)

  1. (programming) An object of a type that can be called, such as a function.
    • 2013, David Beazley, Brian K. Jones, Python Cookbook: Recipes for Mastering Python 3:
      The ctypes module can be used to create Python callables that wrap around arbitrary memory addresses.
  2. (finance) A callable bond.
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