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reentrant

  • /ɹiːˈɛntɹənt/

adjective re-entrant · reëntrant

  1. historical, not comparable Designating a structure at an angle pointing inward towards the centre of the fortification; opposed to salient.
  2. not comparable Pertaining to an angle pointing inwards, or to a line forming part of such an angle. [T]he eye was enclosed in a six-pointed star, and swords with undulating blades issued from each re-entrant angle.
  3. not comparable Pertaining to a type of angular valley cutting deep into the side of a hill or mountain.
  4. not comparable Pertaining to a type of cardiac arrhythmia in which an impulse re-excites an area that has already been stimulated.
  5. not comparable Designating a way of tuning the strings of certain stringed instruments, such that they follow a pattern of rising and falling intervals, rather than having successively higher pitches.
  6. not comparable 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.
  7. not comparable, of a part of a rocket Designed to return to the Earth's atmosphere.
  8. not comparable, of a mutex Such that the corresponding lock can be reacquired by the locking thread. The global interpreter lock of the embedded scripting engine is not reentrant.

noun reentrants · re-entrant · reëntrant

  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.

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@misc{reentrant_2026,
  title = {reentrant},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/reentrant},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}