reentrant
/ɹiːˈɛntɹənt/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.56 in modern English
9
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
2
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Designating a structure at an angle pointing inward towards the centre of the fortification; opposed to salient.
adj
Pertaining to a type of cardiac arrhythmia in which an impulse re-excites an area that has already been stimulated.
adj
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.
adj
That may be executed more than once at a time either by different threads, or because of recursion.
adj
Designed to return to the Earth's atmosphere.
adj
Such that the corresponding lock can be reacquired by the locking thread.
Example Sentences
- "[T]he eye was enclosed in a six-pointed star, and swords with undulating blades issued from each re-entrant angle."
- "Global variables must not be altered by reentrant code."
- "To mitigate that risk, there's an important exception to actor serialization: actors are reentrant. This means that when an actor itself says await, then while the actor's code is waiting, its members can be accessed from outside the actor using await."
- "The global interpreter lock of the embedded scripting engine is not reentrant."
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Italic *wre- Latin re-der. Old French re-bor. Middle English re- English re- English entrant English reentrant From re- + entrant.