Meaning & use
Invoking
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Calling upon a higher power, authority, or law for support, justification, or assistance; also, activating a function in computer programming.
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The lawyer began invoking a rarely used constitutional clause.
The program crashed when invoking the function with invalid parameters.
A note on using this word
In computing, "invoking" a function or method means triggering it to execute, a specialized extension of the word's older legal and religious senses.
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