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Call may refer to:
Arts and entertainment
Games
- Call, a type of betting in poker
- Call, in the game of contract bridge, a bid, pass, double, or redouble in the bidding stage
Music and dance
- Call (band), from Lahore, Pakistan
- "Call / I4U", a 2011 single by Japanese music group AAA
- A command in square dancing, delivered by a caller
Finance
- Call option, a term in stock trading
- Call on shares, a request for a further payment on partly paid share capital
Science and technology
Computing
- System call, in computer science, the mechanism used by an application program to request service from the operating system or another application program
- Computer-assisted language learning, a concept in language education
- A shell command in DOS, OS/2 and Microsoft Windows command-line interpreters
- A method of starting a subroutine
- A Discord (software) call
Nature
- Animal communication, a song or noise made by an animal such as:
- Bird call, part of a bird song
- Mating call, animal communication to attract a sexual partner
- Game call, a device that is used to mimic animal communication noises to attract or drive animals to a hunter
Telecommunications
- Telephone call
- Call origination, in telephony
- An attempt to set up a telecommunication circuit
- In teletraffic engineering, a unit of traffic measurement
Other uses
- Call (surname)
- Call, Texas, a community in the southern United States
- CALL, U.S. Army Center for Army Lessons Learned
- CALL, Center for Anglican Learning & Leadership at the Church Divinity School of the Pacific
See also
- Call (surname)
- The Call (disambiguation)
- Caller (disambiguation)
- Calling (disambiguation)
- Call sign, in broadcasting and radio communications, a unique designation for a transmitting station
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