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    en.wiktionary.org/wiki/invocation though, this term is not used anymore, because it causes confusion (due to a negative interpretation) with non-technical people. Commented Nov 13, 2020 at 11:51
  • Could you provide a reference to where you have seen "incarnation" used? That's generally a specific religious term. Commented Nov 13, 2020 at 12:01
  • Incarnation is for example used here Commented Nov 13, 2020 at 12:11
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    @rwong: You surely meant, you try to avoid to use this term, maybe because you have made the experience it might cause confusion with some non-technical people you had to deal with. Nevertheless I think this term is still used often (for example, in the article linked to in the OP's last comment). Commented Nov 13, 2020 at 12:37
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    @rwong: I use "invoke" and "invocation" all the time when describing the times a function gets called. My team is a very multi cultural team with representatives from 6 different continents, and I haven't heard them get confused. "Invocation" is a technical term, and I frankly wouldn't worry about non-technical people being confused. It's like expecting quantum physicists to write technical papers in layman's terms. Sure you might want to use layman's terms in say, USA Today. But if you are publishing something in an academic journal, your audience is different. You need to know your audience. Commented Nov 13, 2020 at 13:43