reentrant en · ADJ
Pronunciation
- /ɹiːˈɛntɹənt/
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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.
Meanings
- (historical, not-comparable) Designating a structure at an angle pointing inward towards the centre of the fortification; opposed to salient.
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(not-comparable) Pertaining to an angle pointing inwards, or to a line forming part of such an angle.
[T]he eye was enclosed in a six-pointed star, and swords with undulating blades issued from each re-entrant angle.
1917, Aleister Crowley, Moonchild, Weiser, published 2010, page 78:
- (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.
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(not-comparable) That may be executed more than once at a time either by different threads, or because of recursion.
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.
2021, Matt Neuburg, iOS 15 Programming Fundamentals with Swift, 8th edition, O'Reilly, →ISBN, page 386:Global variables must not be altered by reentrant code.
- (not-comparable, of a part of a rocket) Designed to return to the Earth's atmosphere.
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(not-comparable, of a mutex) Such that the corresponding lock can be reacquired by the locking thread.
The global interpreter lock of the embedded scripting engine is not reentrant.
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
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| re-entrant | alternative | lexicographic | |
| reëntrant | alternative | lexicographic |
Deriveds
reentrantly · microreentrant · nonreentrant · macroreentrant