delegates

Noun

delegate (plural delegates)

1. A person authorized to act as representative for another; a deputy.
2. A representative at a conference, etc.
3. (US) An appointed representative in some legislative bodies.
4. A type of variable storing a reference to a method with a particular signature, analogous to a function pointer.
   • Historically, all viable frameworks have always provided a mechanism to implement callbacks. C# goes one step further and encapsulates callbacks into callable objects called delegates.2010, Trey Nash, Accelerated C# 2010, page xxvi
5. A member of a governmental legislature who lacks voting power.
   • The house of delegates in apartheid-era South Africa lacked any real voting power.

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