Associations to the word «Reentrant»
Noun
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Wiktionary
REENTRANT, adjective. Reentering; pointing inward.
REENTRANT, adjective. (programming) (of a mutual exclusion mechanism) Such that the corresponding lock can be reacquired by the locking thread.
REENTRANT, adjective. (programming) That may be executed more than once at a time either by different threads, or because of recursion.
REENTRANT, adjective. (transport) (of a part of a rocket) Designed to return to the Earth's atmosphere.
REENTRANT, adjective. (physiology) Of or pertaining to reentry (in the heart)
REENTRANT, adjective. (music) (of a ukulele or similar instrument) Having the strings not ordered according to pitch (having a re-entry)
REENTRANT, noun. An angle or part that reenters itself.
REENTRANT, noun. One who enters (the labour market, etc.) again.
REENTRANT, noun. (geography) A valley between a pair of parallel ridges
REËNTRANT, adjective. Obsolete form of reentrant.
REËNTRANT, noun. Obsolete form of reentrant.
Dictionary definition
REENTRANT, adjective. (of angles) pointing inward; "a polygon with re-entrant angles".
Wise words
Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary
meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the
truants in custody and bring them back to their right
senses.