recal

Noun

recall (countable and uncountable, plural recalls)

1. Request of the return of a faulty product.
   • recall campaign
2. (US) 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.
   • recall petition
3. (US) 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.
4. Memory; the ability to remember.
   • One little-known incident in No. 49's life is worth recall.1959 June, A. G. Dunbar, “The "Cardeans" of the Caledonian”, in Trains Illustrated, page 310
5. (information retrieval, machine learning) The fraction of (all) relevant material that is returned by a search.
   • precision and recall

   Synonyms:

   sensitivity

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