callback

Definitions

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