Delegation vs Delegate - What's the difference?
delegation | delegate |
An act of delegating.
A group of used to discuss issues with an opponent.
(computing): A method dispatching technique describing the lookup and inheritance rules for self-referential calls.
(legal): A contract whereby the original debtor substitutes a new debtor in his stead, with the creditor’s permission.
a person authorized to act as representative for another; a deputy
a representative at a conference, etc.
(US) an appointed representative in some legislative bodies
(computing) a type of variable storing a reference to a method with a particular signature, analogous to a function pointer
to authorize someone to be a delegate
to commit a task to someone, especially a subordinate
(computing, Internet) (of a subdomain) to give away authority over a subdomain; to allow someone else to create sub-subdomains of a subdomain of yours