# Call

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**Call** or **Calls** may refer to:

## Arts, entertainment, and media

### Games

- [Call (poker)](/source/Call_(poker)), a bet matching an opponent's
- Call, in the game of [contract bridge](/source/Contract_bridge), a bid, pass, double, or redouble in the bidding stage

### Music and dance

- [Call (band)](/source/Call_(band)), from Lahore, Pakistan
- Call, a command in square dancing, delivered by a [caller](/source/Caller_(dancing))
- "[Call / I4U](/source/Call_/_I4U)", a 2011 single by Japanese music group AAA
- "Call", a 2002 song by Ashanti from her album *[Ashanti](/source/Ashanti_(album))*
- ["Call" (Stray Kids song)](/source/Call_(Stray_Kids_song)), 2021

### Film

- [*Call* (film)](/source/Call_(film)), or *The Call*, 2020 South Korean film
- [*Calls* (film)](/source/Calls_(film)), 2021 Indian Tamil-language crime thriller film

### Television

- [*Calls* (TV series)](/source/Calls_(TV_series)), a mystery thriller TV series on Apple TV+

## Finance

- [Call on shares](/source/Call_on_shares), a request for a further payment on partly paid share capital
- [Call option](/source/Call_option), a term in stock trading

## Places

- [Call, North Carolina](/source/Call,_North_Carolina), United States
- [Call, Texas](/source/Call,_Texas), United States

## Science and technology

### Computing

- Call, a shell [command](/source/Command_(computing)) in DOS, OS/2 and Microsoft Windows command-line interpreters
- Call, a method of invoking a [subroutine](/source/Subroutine), including perhaps a [system call](/source/System_call), where a program requests service from the operating system
- [Computer-assisted language learning](/source/Computer-assisted_language_learning), a concept in language education

### Nature

- [Animal communication](/source/Animal_communication), a song or noise made by an animal such as: - [Bird call](/source/Bird_call), a type of bird vocalization - [Mating call](/source/Mating_call), animal communication to attract a sexual partner
- [Game call](/source/Game_call), a device that is used to *mimic* animal communication noises to attract or drive animals to a hunter

### Telecommunications

- Call, an attempt to set up a [telecommunication circuit](/source/Telecommunication_circuit)
- Call, in [teletraffic engineering](/source/Teletraffic_engineering), a unit of traffic measurement
- [Call origination](/source/Call_origination), in telephony
- [Call sign](/source/Call_sign), in broadcasting and radio communications, a unique designation for a transmitting station
- [Telephone call](/source/Telephone_call)

## Other uses

- [Call (surname)](/source/Call_(surname))
- [Religious calling](/source/Religious_calling)
- CALL, [U.S. Army Center for Army Lessons Learned](/source/U.S._Army_Center_for_Army_Lessons_Learned)
- CALL, Center for Anglican Learning & Leadership at the [Church Divinity School of the Pacific](/source/Church_Divinity_School_of_the_Pacific)

## See also

- [Caller (disambiguation)](/source/Caller_(disambiguation))
- [Calling (disambiguation)](/source/Calling_(disambiguation))
- [The Call (disambiguation)](/source/The_Call_(disambiguation))

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