REENTRANT

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. 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.
  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. Designed to return to the Earth's atmosphere.
  5. Of or pertaining to reentry (in the heart)


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