reentrant
noun
- 1
An angle or part that reenters itself.
- 2
One who enters (the labour market, etc.) again.
- 3
A valley between a pair of parallel ridges
adjective
- 1
Reentering; pointing inward.
- 2
(of a mutual exclusion mechanism) Such that the corresponding lock can be reacquired by the locking thread.
“The global interpreter lock of the embedded scripting engine is not reentrant.”
- 3
That may be executed more than once at a time either by different threads, or because of recursion.
“Global variables must not be altered by reentrant code.”
- 4
(of a part of a rocket) Designed to return to the Earth's atmosphere.
- 5
Of or pertaining to reentry (in the heart)
- 6
(of a ukulele or similar instrument) Having the strings not ordered according to pitch (having a re-entry)
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