calling in jquery - what is it about?

calling in jquery - what is it about?

  1. Calling the switch plugin
  2. This plugin will auto-initialize on any page that contains a select with the data-role="slider" attribute. However, if needed you can directly call the sliderplugin on any selector, just like any jQuery plugin:

  3. $('select').slider();
This what does this "calling" do?
The jqm manual assumes the user already knows But where to find out?