2syllables
re-entrant
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Definitions ofre-entrant
1adjective
- Reentering; pointing inward.
- (of a mutual exclusion mechanism) Such that the corresponding lock can be reacquired by the locking thread.
Example: "The global interpreter lock of the embedded scripting engine is not reentrant."
- That may be executed more than once at a time either by different threads, or because of recursion.
Example: "Global variables must not be altered by reentrant code."
- (of a part of a rocket) Designed to return to the Earth's atmosphere.
- Of or pertaining to reentry (in the heart)
- (of a ukulele or similar instrument) Having the strings not ordered according to pitch (having a re-entry)
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