reentrant

reentrant
a) Reentering; to point inward.

The global interpreter lock of the embedded scripting engine is not re-entrant.

b) that the corresponding lock can be reacquired by the locking thread.

Global variables must not be altered by reentrant code.

2. noun
a) An angle or part that reenters itself.
b) One who enters (the labour market, etc.) again.

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