Reentrant

Quick meaning: Reentrant is an adjective meaning Reentering; pointing inward.

Meaning

Reentering; pointing inward.

More Meanings

1. (programming, of a mutex) Such that the corresponding lock can be reacquired by the locking thread.
2. (programming) That may be executed more than once at a time either by different threads, or because of recursion.
3. (aeronautics, of a part of a rocket) Designed to return to the Earth's atmosphere.
4. (physiology) Of or pertaining to reentry (in the heart).
5. (music, of a ukulele or similar instrument) Having the strings not ordered according to pitch (having a re-entry).
6. An angle or part that reenters itself.
7. One who enters (the labour market, etc.) again.

Example Sentences

Global variables must not be altered by reentrant code.

The global interpreter lock of the embedded scripting engine is not reentrant.

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.

Word Forms

• re-entrant
• reentrants

Synonyms for reentrant

Depending on context, synonyms include re-entrant.

Antonyms for reentrant

Common opposites include salient.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include re-entrant, reentering, ingressive, inrunning, recurrent, introitive.

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