reentrant
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Is reentrant a Scrabble word?
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Definition
adj (English)
1. (programming, of a mutex) Such that the corresponding lock can be reacquired by the locking thread.Examples: "The global interpreter lock of the embedded scripting engine is not reentrant."not-comparable
2. (programming) That may be executed more than once at a time either by different threads, or because of recursion.Examples: "Global variables must not be altered by reentrant code."; "Actor serialization […]might even lead to possible deadlock. 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."not-comparable
3. (aeronautics, of a part of a rocket) Designed to return to the Earth's atmosphere.not-comparable
4. (physiology) Of or pertaining to reentry (in the heart).not-comparable
5. (music, of a ukulele or similar instrument) Having the strings not ordered according to pitch (having a re-entry).not-comparable
noun (English)
1. (geography) A valley between a pair of parallel ridges.
Definition source: Wiktionary