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Annotation vs Callout - What's the difference?

annotation | callout |

As nouns the difference between annotation and callout

is that annotation is a critical or explanatory commentary or analysis while callout is outward bound telephone calls.

annotation

English

Noun

(wikipedia annotation) (en noun)
  • a critical or explanatory commentary or analysis
  • a comment added to a text
  • the process of writing such comment or commentary
  • (computing) metadata added to a document or program
  • (genetics) information relating to the genetic structure of sequences of bases

    • callout

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (communication) Outward bound telephone calls.
  • (slang) An invitation to fight; the act of one child calling out another.
  • (typography, graphic layout) A pull quote: an excerpt from an article (such as in a news magazine) that is duplicated in a large font alongside the article so as to grab a reader's attention and indicate the article's topic.
  • A summons to someone designated as being on call
  • An annotation that pertains to a specific location in a body of text or a graphic, and that is visually linked to that location by a mark or a matching pair of marks.

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