callable

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English

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Etymology

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From call +‎ -able.

Adjective

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callable (not comparable)

  1. (programming) That can be called.
    • 1989, Angel Alvarez, Ada: The Design Choice:
      The list of server tasks is a compromise between only one task for all remotely callable subprograms and one task for each remotely callable subprogram.
    • 2010, Trey Nash, Accelerated C# 2010, page xxvi:
      Historically, all viable frameworks have always provided a mechanism to implement callbacks. C# goes one step further and encapsulates callbacks into callable objects called delegates.
  2. (finance) That may be redeemed by its holder before it matures.

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Noun

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callable (plural callables)

  1. (programming) An object of a type that can be called, such as a function.
    • 2013, David Beazley, Brian K. Jones, Python Cookbook: Recipes for Mastering Python 3:
      The ctypes module can be used to create Python callables that wrap around arbitrary memory addresses.
  2. (finance) A callable bond.