Call

• In computer science and telecommunications, calling is:

1. Any attempt to set up a communications circuit.
2. A unit of traffic measurement.
3. The actions performed by a call originator.
4. The operations required to establish, maintain, and release a connection.
5. To use a connection between two stations.
6. The action of bringing a computer program, subroutine, or variable into effect; usually by specifying the entry conditions and the entry point. In programming languages (such as C and C++) before subroutines and variables can be called, they must be declared.

References: Federal Standard 1037C, MIL-STD-188

• In finance, a call option gives its owner the right to buy stock at a specified price in the future, as opposed to a put option.

• Call in round dancing and square dancing is a command by a caller to execute a particular dance figure.

• CALL -- computer-assisted language learning

• In poker to Call a bet means to equal the amount of poker chips in the pot as the player that bet.

• Bird call
• Booty call
• Jody call

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