adjective · rare

reentrant

Designating a structure at an angle pointing inward towards the centre of the…Designating a structure at an angle pointing inward towards the centre of the fortification; opposed to salient.

/ɹiːˈɛntɹənt/

Meaning

8 senses

(historical, not comparable)Designating a structure at an angle pointing inward towards the centre of the fortification; opposed to salient.
(of angles) pointing inward
(not comparable)Pertaining to an angle pointing inwards, or to a line forming part of such an angle.
(not comparable)Pertaining to a type of angular valley cutting deep into the side of a hill or mountain.
(not comparable)Pertaining to a type of cardiac arrhythmia in which an impulse re-excites an area that has already been stimulated.
(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.
(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.
(not comparable)Designed to return to the Earth's atmosphere.
(not comparable)Such that the corresponding lock can be reacquired by the locking thread.
The global interpreter lock of the embedded scripting engine is not reentrant.