invocation

invoke | American Dictionary

invoke
verb[ T ]
us/ɪnˈvoʊk/

invokeverb[T] (CALL FOR HELP)

to call on something or someone, esp. God, for help

invokeverb[T] (USE)

to cause something to be used; bring into effect:
Rather than answer the question, the witness invoked the Fifth Amendment against incriminating himself.

invoke | Business English

invoke
verb[ T ]
 formaluk /ɪnˈvəʊk/us
to use something such as a law to help you when you want to do something:
Regulators said they would invoke legal powers to enforce the change.
IT
to make a computer program start working:
invoke sth from sthYou may have to invoke the program from the command line.

Examples of invoke

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In some colonies the law on the infringement of the indenture had to be invoked too often.
If the locution contains an argument, an argument evaluation or interpretation mechanism is invoked which updates the agent's mental state accordingly.
To the contrary, uncontrolled dissemination of experimental implants, without evidence that more benefit than harm is invoked to patients, can be coined as unethical behavior.
Throughout the scene important lessons on shrew-taming are invoked as the power relationship between the spouses is clearly established.
Clearly here an axiom of interpretation is being invoked, rather than a bet about the states of mind of the population.
When it could not, the existence of property that was the subject of the suit was invoked to uphold the claims of temple dancing girls.
Assume now that an incident occurs on the subway line; the pieces of knowledge k1 to k4 are (or should be) immediately invoked.
The operational semantics is self-application, that is, the current object is substituted for self in the body of the method which is invoked.
A linear branching receives information by being invoked at one of its branches.
The rest of the computation is represented in a closure, which is invoked only after the first element is consumed.
Now, what should thunkify do if invoked on such a thread?
A num method must be provided, but once again it should never be invoked.
The average momentum pz 0 is obtained by invoking pressure balance between the laser light and plasma.
The first technique raises the cost of establishing a handler scope, while the second raises the cost of invoking an exception.
Interestingly, this argument is sometimes also invoked by colleagues who, one would expect, should know better.
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