Call

• In computer science and telecommunications, calling is:
• Any attempt to set up a communications circuit.
• A unit of traffic measurement.
• The actions performed by a call originator.
• The operations required to establish, maintain, and release a connection.
• To use a connection between two stations.
• The action of bringing a computer program, subroutine, or variable into effect; usually by specifying the entry conditions and the entry point. In programming languages (such as C and C++) before subroutines and variables can be called, they must be declared.

:References: Federal Standard 1037C, MIL-STD-188

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• In finance, a call option gives its owner the right to buy stock at a specified price in the future, as opposed to a put option.
• A call in square dancing is a command by a caller to execute a particular dance figure.
• CALL -- computer-assisted language learning
• In poker to Call a bet means to equal the amount of poker chips in the pot as the player that bet.
• Call and response
• Bird call
• Booty call
• Jody call

Federal Standard 1037C: Federal Standard 1037C entitled Telecommunications: Glossary of Telecommunication Terms is a U.S. Federal Standard, issued by the General Services Administration pursuant to the Federal Property and Administrative Services Act of 1949, as amended....

MIL-STD-188: MIL-STD-188 is a series of U.S. military standards relating to telecommunications....

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