reentrant

Meanings

Adjective

• Reentering; pointing inward.
• Such that the corresponding lock can be reacquired by the locking thread.
• That may be executed more than once at a time either by different threads, or because of recursion.
• Designed to return to the Earth's atmosphere.
• Of or pertaining to reentry (in the heart)
• Having the strings not ordered according to pitch (having a re-entry)

Noun

• An angle or part that reenters itself.
• One who enters (the labour market, etc.) again.
• A valley between a pair of parallel ridges

Origin

• re- + entrant