callee

See also: čällee

English

Etymology

From call +‎ -ee.

Noun

callee (plural callees)

1. (telephony) The person who is called by the caller (on the telephone).
2. (programming) A function called by another.
   • 1975, Gerald Jay Sussman and Guy L. Steele, Jr., Scheme: An Interpreter for Extended Lambda Calculus, MIT AI Lab, page 24:

     The interpreter must provide for correctly resuming the caller when the callee has returned its value.

Translations

the person who is getting called by the caller

• Czech: volaný
• Finnish: soitettava (fi)
• French: appelé (fr) m
• Italian: chiamato (it) m
• Russian: вызыва́емый (ru) (vyzyvájemyj) абоне́нт (ru) (abonént)
• Spanish: llamado (es) m, llamada (es) f

See also

• collect call

Anagrams

• cellae