Callee
Callee is a term used in several related domains to denote the party that is being called or invoked. In everyday language and telecommunications, the callee is the person or device at the receiving end of a call, as opposed to the caller who initiates the connection. The callee can be a human user, a voicemail system, or an automated response system that answers and participates in the communication.
In computer science, callee refers to the function or subroutine that is invoked by another function, known
Within programming practice, the concept of callee is important for understanding control flow and resource management.
Etymology and usage: callee is formed from the verb call plus the -ee suffix, indicating the recipient
See also: caller, calling convention, stack frame, callee-saved registers, tail call, telecommunications.