Usually means: Code that safely allows concurrency.
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We found 16 dictionaries that define the word reentrant:

General (15 matching dictionaries)
  1. reentrant: Merriam-Webster
  2. reentrant: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  3. reentrant: Vocabulary.com
  4. reentrant: Wordnik
  5. reentrant: Wiktionary
  6. reentrant: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  7. reentrant: Infoplease Dictionary
  8. Reentrant, reentrant: Dictionary.com
  9. Reentrant (subroutine), Reentrant: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. Reentrant: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  11. reentrant: Rhymezone
  12. Reentrant: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  13. reentrant: FreeDictionary.org
  14. reentrant: Mnemonic Dictionary
  15. reentrant: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. reentrant: Encyclopedia

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Definitions from Wiktionary (reentrant)

adjective:  Reentering; pointing inward.
adjective:  (programming, of a mutex) Such that the corresponding lock can be reacquired by the locking thread.
adjective:  (programming) That may be executed more than once at a time either by different threads, or because of recursion.
adjective:  (aeronautics, of a part of a rocket) Designed to return to the Earth's atmosphere.
adjective:  (physiology) Of or pertaining to reentry (in the heart);
adjective:  (music, of a ukulele or similar instrument) Having the strings not ordered according to pitch (having a re-entry).
noun:  An angle or part that reenters itself.
noun:  One who enters (the labour market, etc.) again.
noun:  (geography) A valley between a pair of parallel ridges.

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