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🇯🇵Japanese Source WordCode: JA

コールバック

Pronunciation / Transliteration: kōrubakku

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Callback/ˈkɔːl.bæk/
nounverbCEFR B2 (Upper)Top #4500 frequency
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🇯🇵 Example Sentence in Japanese:

"APIからのコールバックを処理する。"

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

2 senses
As noun
  1. 1

    A request to return a phone call, or a telephone call made to return one received.

    "I left a message at the office and am currently waiting for a callback."
  2. 2

    In computing, an executable code that is passed as an argument to other code to be executed at a convenient time.

    "The asynchronous function accepts a callback to handle the response data."

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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Derived from the verb phrase 'to call back', dating back to the late 19th century in the context of telephony and returning telephone calls. In the mid-20th century, the term expanded into the entertainment industry for secondary auditions, and later became a fundamental concept in computer programming during the era of procedural and event-driven software development.

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