From e3bf125c81d5da0734429c1cb6ae75e6086e35ae Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: MonadChains <monadchains@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 12 Oct 2022 04:41:08 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] gh-95276: Add callable entry to the glossary (#95738)

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 Doc/glossary.rst | 10 ++++++++++
 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+)

diff --git a/Doc/glossary.rst b/Doc/glossary.rst
index 9385b8ddd13..59f9426f603 100644
--- a/Doc/glossary.rst
+++ b/Doc/glossary.rst
@@ -210,6 +210,16 @@ Glossary
       A list of bytecode instructions can be found in the documentation for
       :ref:`the dis module <bytecodes>`.
 
+   callable
+      A callable is an object that can be called, possibly with a set
+      of arguments (see :term:`argument`), with the following syntax::
+
+         callable(argument1, argument2, ...)
+
+      A :term:`function`, and by extension a :term:`method`, is a callable.
+      An instance of a class that implements the :meth:`~object.__call__`
+      method is also a callable.
+
    callback
       A subroutine function which is passed as an argument to be executed at
       some point in the future.