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Callback

Meaning in software engineering, with examples

nounCommon term

In software engineering, callback means: A function passed to another piece of code so that the receiving code can invoke it when needed.

In Turkish: geri çağırım fonksiyonu

How it is used

Used in event handling, collection operations and asynchronous APIs. A callback can also be called synchronously; the term alone does not promise asynchronous execution.

Example sentences

  1. Pass a callback that logs the result when the upload finishes.

  2. The sorting callback compares two records by their creation date.

Common collocations

  • register a callback
  • invoke a callback
  • callback function
  • functionA named block of code that does one job. It can take input values, and it often returns a result to the code that called it.
  • eventSomething that happens in the browser and that code can react to, such as a click, a key press, a form submission or the page finishing loading.
  • closureA function together with access to variables from its surrounding lexical environment, even when it is called from elsewhere.

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