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reentrancy

reentrancy noun: the state or condition of being reentrant.

Noun

reentrancy (countable and uncountable, plural reentrancies)

  1. The state or condition of being reentrant.
    • The mikroC compiler supports only a limited function reentrancy. Functions that have no arguments and local variables can be called both from the interrupt service routines and from the main program.2011, Dogan Ibrahim, Advanced PIC Microcontroller Projects in C, Newnes, →ISBN, page 184

Forms of reentrancy

pluralreentrancies
alternative formre-entrancy

Origin of reentrancy

From reentrant + -cy.

Questions about reentrancy

What does reentrancy mean?
Reentrancy means the state or condition of being reentrant.
What part of speech is reentrancy?
Reentrancy is a noun.
What is the plural of reentrancy?
The plural of reentrancy is reentrancies.

Words near reentrancy in the dictionary

  1. reentrainments
  2. reentrains
  3. reentrance
  4. reentrances
  5. reentrancies
  6. reentrancy
  7. reentrant
  8. reentrantly
  9. reentrants
  10. reentre
  11. reentred

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