recall

noun

Memory; the ability to remember.

(chiefly US politics) The right or procedure by which a public official may be removed from office before the end of their term of office, by a vote of the people to be taken on the filing of a petition signed by a required number or percentage of qualified voters.

(US politics) The right or procedure by which the decision of a court may be directly reversed or annulled by popular vote, as was advocated, in 1912, in the platform of the Progressive Party for certain cases involving the police power of the state.

The action or fact of calling someone or something back.

Request of the return of a faulty product.

(information retrieval, machine learning) The fraction of (all) relevant material that is returned by a search.

verb

(transitive, intransitive) To call back (a situation, event, etc.) to one's mind; to remember; to recollect.

(transitive) To call back, bring back, or summon (someone) to a specific place, station, etc.

(transitive) To withdraw, retract (one's words etc.); to revoke (an order).

(transitive) To request or order the return of (a faulty product).

(transitive, intransitive) To call again; to call another time.

(transitive) To hearken back to, evoke; to be reminiscent of.

(transitive) To bring back (someone) to or from a particular mental or physical state, activity etc.

(transitive, US politics) To remove an elected official through a petition and direct vote.

Roots

rere- · Latin · back

Synonyms for recall

recollectv rememberv recollectionn reminiscencen remindv reminiscev remembrancen memoryn retrospectionn anamnesisn flashbackn evokev

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Where does recall come from?

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