What is meant by the term “hook” in programming?

Question

I recently heard the term \"hook\" while talking to some people about a program I was writing. I\'m unsure exactly what this term implies although I inferred from the conve

Answer 1

Hook denotes a place in the code where you dispatch an event of certain type, and if this event was registered before with a proper function to call back, then it would be handled by this registered function, otherwise nothing happens.