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uncallable

uncallable adjective: not callable.

Adjective

uncallable (not comparable)

  1. Not callable.
    • The loans are paid out by the associations in their own bonds, uncallable by the owners, but to be paid off gradually by the associations in the same proportion as the borrowers repay their loans.1929, Henry Parker Willis, Ernst Heinrich Daniel Arndt, Benjamin Haggott Beckhart, Foreign Banking Systems, page 519
    • A developer specifies that a permit policy using a “safe” annotation, and a deny policy with an “unsafe” annotation. If we infer that a method has an effective unsafe annotation, then this method is invisible to and uncallable by untrusted clients.2009, Atul Prakash, Information Systems Security: 5th International Conference, page 303

Origin of uncallable

From un- + callable.

Questions about uncallable

What does uncallable mean?
Uncallable means not callable.
What part of speech is uncallable?
Uncallable is an adjective.

Words near uncallable in the dictionary

  1. uncalibrated
  2. uncalk
  3. uncalked
  4. uncalking
  5. uncalks
  6. uncallable
  7. uncalled
  8. uncalled for
  9. uncalled-for
  10. uncallous
  11. uncalloused

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