callback

Meaning

1. The return of a situation to a previous position or state.
2. A return telephone or radio call; especially one made automatically to authenticate a logon to a computer network.
3. A product recall because of a defect or safety concern.
4. A function pointer passed as an argument to another function.
5. A follow-up audition (casting)
6. A joke which references an earlier joke in the same routine

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Sources

1. DictionaryAPI.dev English dictionary data