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Read the following excerpt (the last paragraph of PASSAGE 3) and answer the question.

PASSAGE 3 (last paragraph): Many classical results in matrix theory proved by mathematical induction may be regarded as constructible by a direct method. With advances in today's programming languages that allow a subprogram to invoke itself recursively, traditional induction proofs can be transformed into a recursive algorithm which terminates in finitely many steps.

Question: The word "invoke" in the last paragraph is similar in meaning to __________.