system call

1. 1.

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

   Synonymssupervisor call instruction

   Broadercall

Questions about system call

What does system call mean?

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

What is another word for system call?

Close synonyms include supervisor call instruction. 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 system call a common word?

system call 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.