re-call

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See also: recall

English

Etymology

re- +‎ call, with hyphen to avoid confusion with recall (remember).

Verb

re-call (third-person singular simple present re-calls, present participle re-calling, simple past and past participle re-called)

  1. (transitive) Alternative form of recall (To call again.)
    • 1817, Edward Baines, History of the Wars of the French Revolution: Volume 2, page 303:
      In 1792 the troubles in Poland re-called him to arms.
    • 2015, Jon J. Raasch, Graham Murray, Vadim Ogievetsky, Joseph Lowery, “Exploring Charting Tools”, in JavaScript® and jQuery® for Data Analysis and Visualization, Wrox, →ISBN, →LCCN, section “Creating HTML5 Canvas Charts”, page 189:
      animationTick calls _tickAnimation on all of the chart elements, calls the main _render method of the chart to render it out to the canvas, and finally, if any of the elements were still in progress, requests a new animation frame that will re-call animationTick when the new frame is ready.

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