REENTRANT
reentrant
Noun
- An angle or part that reenters itself.
- One who enters (the labour market, etc.) again.
- A valley between a pair of parallel ridges
Adjective
- Reentering; pointing inward.
- Such that the corresponding lock can be reacquired by the locking thread.
- The global interpreter lock of the embedded scripting engine is not re-entrant.
- 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.
- Designed to return to the Earth's atmosphere.
- Of or pertaining to reentry (in the heart)
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