Recall vs Callback - What's the difference?
recall | callback |
To withdraw, retract (one's words etc.); to revoke (an order).
To call back, bring back or summon (someone) to a specific place, station etc.
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To bring back (someone) to or from a particular mental or physical state, activity etc.
To call back (a situation, event etc.) to one's mind; to remember, recollect.
* 1994 , Nelson Mandela, Long Walk to Freedom , Abacus 2010, p. 10:
(intransitive) To call again, to call another time.
To request or order the return of (a faulty product).
The action or fact of calling someone or something back.
Memory; the ability to remember.
In , the fraction of (all) relevant material that is returned by a search
a product recall (request of the return of a faulty product).
The return of a situation to a previous position or state.
A return telephone or radio call; especially one made automatically to authenticate a logon to a computer network.
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A product recall because of a defect or safety concern.
(computing, programming) A function pointer passed to another function that the latter can call for notification purposes.
(theater) a follow-up audition (casting)
(comedy) a joke which references an earlier joke in the same routine
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As nouns the difference between recall and callback
is that recall is the action or fact of calling someone or something back while callback is the return of a situation to a previous position or state.As a verb recall
is to withdraw, retract (one's words etc.); to revoke (an order).recall
English
(wikipedia recall)Verb
(en verb)- He was recalled to service after his retirement.
- She was recalled to London for the trial.
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- In fact, I hardly recall any occasion as a child when I was alone.
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(wikipedia callback) (en noun)- For example, multiple callbacks might be made to a nonanswered number to increase the response rate.
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