The term recall has a number of meanings:

• Product recall
• A recall election
• Recall to employment after a layoff
• Recall from memory. See Recollection, Total Recall. By analogy, many calculators have a "recall" button.
• In information retrieval, a statistical measure, contrasted with precision. Recall is the fractio of (all) relevant material that is returned by the search.
• In dog training, recall is the process of bringing a dog to you from a distance.

A product recall is a request that a batch or an entire production run of a product be returned to the manufacturer, usually due to the discovery of safety issues. ... A recall election is a procedure by which voters can remove an elected official from office. ... Employment is a contract between two parties, one being the employer and the other being the employee. ... Memory is a function of the brain: the ability to retain information. ... Recollection is retrieval of memory. ... Total Recall is an American science fiction film released on June 1, 1990 starring Arnold Schwarzenegger, directed by Paul Verhoeven and written by Ronald Shusett & Dan OBannon and Gary Goldman. ... Information retrieval (IR) is the art and science of searching for information in documents, searching for documents themselves, searching for metadata which describes documents, or searching within databases, whether relational stand alone databases or hypertext networked databases such as the Internet or intranets, for text, sound, images or data. ... In Wikipedia, precision has the following meanings: In engineering, science, industry and statistics, precision characterises the degree of mutual agreement among a series of individual measurements, values, or results - see accuracy and precision. ... Dog training is a necessary adjunct to keeping dogs as pets. ...

See also

• Knowledge visualization: Recall from Images