Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Reentering; pointing inward.
- noun A reentrant angle or part.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Same as
reëntering . - In electricity, designating a form of armature-winding of dynamo-electric machines, consisting of two or more spirals arranged so that the end of the first spiral leads into the beginning of the second, etc., and the end of the last into the beginning of the first.
- noun A reëntering angle or part.
- noun In physical geography, a concave or retreating surface or outline.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Reëntering; pointing or directed inwardds.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective
Reentering ; pointing inward. - adjective programming 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 differentthreads , or because ofrecursion . - adjective transport Designed to return to the
Earth 'satmosphere . - adjective physiology Of or pertaining to
reentry (in the heart) - noun An angle or part that reenters itself.
- noun One who enters (the labour market, etc.) again.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective (of angles) pointing inward
- adjective (of angles) pointing inward
Etymologies
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Examples
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The motion sickness of recycled devotion pulls you, Kalahari way, into all reentrant forms.
The Bushman Way of Tracking God PhD Bradford Keeney 2010
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But there was an even more important reason for the increasing prevalence of discounting: the arrival in the world market of a major new entrant, or rather a reentrant—the Soviet Union.
The Prize Daniel Yergin 2008
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But there was an even more important reason for the increasing prevalence of discounting: the arrival in the world market of a major new entrant, or rather a reentrant—the Soviet Union.
The Prize Daniel Yergin 2008
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* A denizen is precisely determined by calculating the generalized autoregressive conditional heteroscedascticity of the standard deviation of "residents", passed through a Bayesian filter, and finally normalized through a time-delay, reentrant neural net optimized with genetic algorithm parameter narrowing.
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Unlike the limbic–brain stem system, it does not contain loops so much as highly connected layered local structures with massively reentrant connections.
Mind Wide Open Steven Johnson 2004
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Unlike the limbic–brain stem system, it does not contain loops so much as highly connected layered local structures with massively reentrant connections.
Mind Wide Open Steven Johnson 2004
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Unlike the limbic–brain stem system, it does not contain loops so much as highly connected layered local structures with massively reentrant connections.
Mind Wide Open Steven Johnson 2004
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Unlike the limbic–brain stem system, it does not contain loops so much as highly connected layered local structures with massively reentrant connections.
Mind Wide Open Steven Johnson 2004
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Here there was a break in the line of dark cliffs, a heavily forested reentrant, that cut into the wall of basalt.
The Seventh Scroll Smith, Wilbur 1995
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Starting work always in reentrant corners, putting the skirting board in the mitre box, cutting mitre inwards with hand saw.
Chapter 6 Horst Hofmann 1993
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