reentrant

Speech parts

1. reentrant - Noun

2. reentrant - Adjective

Meaning

Reentering; pointing or directed inwardds; as, a re/ntrant angle.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

re-entrant returning entering incoming hollow concave reentry recessed tuck dished reentering transitions returnees back-in-the-game participant back-to-back entrant
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Antonyms

salient

Examples

a polygon with re-entrant angles Source: Internet

Although in theory the Mach kernel would also have to be reentrant, in practice this isn't an issue because its response times are so fast it can simply wait and serve requests in turn. Source: Internet

Because of the short fifth string, the five-string banjo uses a reentrant tuning —the string pitches don't proceed lowest to highest across the fingerboard. Source: Internet

However, in multiprocessing systems many processes may run off of, or share, the same reentrant program at the same location in memory, but each process is said to own its own image of the program. Source: Internet

But if the function is used in a reentrant interrupt handler and a second interrupt arises inside the function, the second routine will hang forever. Source: Internet

In a traditional kernel extensive work needs to be carried out to make it reentrant or interruptible, as programs running on different processors could call into the kernel at the same time. Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

reentrainment reentrance reentrancy reentrant angle reentrant polygon reentre