delegate

Definitions

1. A person authorized to act as representative for another; a deputy
2. A locality in the Snowy Monaro council area, south eastern New South Wales, Australia.
3. A person authorized to act as representative for another; a deputy.
4. A representative at a conference, etc.
5. A representative at a conference, etc
6. An appointed representative in some legislative bodies.
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7. An appointed representative in some legislative bodies
8. A type of variable storing a reference to a method with a particular signature, analogous to a function pointer.
9. A type of variable storing a reference to a method with a particular signature, analogous to a function pointer
10. A member of a governmental legislature who lacks voting power.
11. A member of a governmental legislature who lacks voting power

Equivalents

Examples

“Historically, all viable frameworks have⟳ always provided a mechanism to implement callbacks. C# goes one step further and encapsulates callbacks into callable objects called delegates.”

“The house of delegates in apartheid-era South Africa lacked any real voting power.”

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