reentrant.
Designating a structure at an angle pointing inward towards the centre of the fortification; opposed to salient.
Meaning & usage
Designating a structure at an angle pointing inward towards the centre of the fortification; opposed to salient.
Pertaining to an angle pointing inwards, or to a line forming part of such an angle.
Pertaining to a type of angular valley cutting deep into the side of a hill or mountain.
Pertaining to a type of cardiac arrhythmia in which an impulse re-excites an area that has already been stimulated.
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.
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.
Designed to return to the Earth's atmosphere.
Such that the corresponding lock can be reacquired by the locking thread.
The global interpreter lock of the embedded scripting engine is not reentrant.
Where this word comes from
Etymology tree Proto-Italic *wre- Latin re-der. Old French re-bor. Middle English re- English re- English entrant English reentrant From re- + entrant.
An angle or part that reenters itself.
One who enters (the labour market, etc.) again.
A valley between a pair of parallel ridges.
Where this word comes from
Etymology tree Proto-Italic *wre- Latin re-der. Old French re-bor. Middle English re- English re- English entrant English reentrant From re- + entrant.
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