supervisor call instruction

1. 1.

   an instruction that interrupts the program being executed and passes control to the supervisor

   Synonymssystem call

   Broadercall

Questions about supervisor call instruction

What does supervisor call instruction mean?

supervisor call instruction means "an instruction that interrupts the program being executed and passes control to the supervisor".

What is another word for supervisor call instruction?

Close synonyms include system call. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is supervisor call instruction a common word?

supervisor call instruction is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.