"call site" meaning in English

See call site in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

Forms: call sites [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} call site (plural call sites)
  1. (programming) The section of code from which another section is called. Categories (topical): Programming Synonyms: callsite Related terms: callee, caller

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

Download JSON data for call site meaning in English (1.2kB)

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "call sites",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "call site (plural call sites)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Programming",
          "orig": "en:Programming",
          "parents": [
            "Computing",
            "Software engineering",
            "Technology",
            "Computer science",
            "Engineering",
            "Software",
            "All topics",
            "Sciences",
            "Applied sciences",
            "Media",
            "Fundamental",
            "Communication"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The section of code from which another section is called."
      ],
      "id": "en-call_site-en-noun-I4LjrL5-",
      "links": [
        [
          "programming",
          "programming#Noun"
        ],
        [
          "section",
          "section"
        ],
        [
          "code",
          "code"
        ],
        [
          "call",
          "call"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(programming) The section of code from which another section is called."
      ],
      "related": [
        {
          "word": "callee"
        },
        {
          "word": "caller"
        }
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "callsite"
        }
      ],
      "topics": [
        "computing",
        "engineering",
        "mathematics",
        "natural-sciences",
        "physical-sciences",
        "programming",
        "sciences"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "call site"
}
{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "call sites",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "call site (plural call sites)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "callee"
    },
    {
      "word": "caller"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English nouns",
        "en:Programming"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The section of code from which another section is called."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "programming",
          "programming#Noun"
        ],
        [
          "section",
          "section"
        ],
        [
          "code",
          "code"
        ],
        [
          "call",
          "call"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(programming) The section of code from which another section is called."
      ],
      "topics": [
        "computing",
        "engineering",
        "mathematics",
        "natural-sciences",
        "physical-sciences",
        "programming",
        "sciences"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "callsite"
    }
  ],
  "word": "call site"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-05 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (f4fd8c9 and c9440ce). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.