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Reentrant

  1. Reentering; pointing inward.
  2. (programming, of a mutual exclusion mechanism) Such that the corresponding lock can be reacquired by the locking thread.
  3. (programming) That may be executed more than once at a time either by different threads, or because of recursion.
  4. (transport, of a part of a rocket) Designed to return to the Earth's atmosphere.
  5. (physiology) Of or pertaining to reentry (in the heart)
  6. (music, of a ukulele or similar instrument) Having the strings not ordered according to pitch (having a re-entry)