The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (30 December 2018):

transfer of control

    To cause execution of a program to continue
   from a different address instead of proceding sequentially to
   the next instruction.  This may happen as a result of a jump
   instruction or some kind of interrupt.

   This term is more common when discussing machine code, the
   high-level language equivalent is a goto statement.

   (2009-06-09)