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callback

noun C2
  1. The return of a situation to a previous position or state; a reference to such a 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 in casting.
  6. A follow-up interview in employment recruiting.
  7. A joke which references an earlier joke in the same routine.
  8. A form of audience participation in which the audience shout lines in response to the dialog of a film.

Plural callbacks

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Words, meanings, pronunciations and translations from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); how common each word is from wordfreq. Made into this dictionary by FluentPlex.