reentrancy

English

Alternative forms

• re-entrancy

Etymology

reentrant +‎ -cy

Noun

reentrancy (countable and uncountable, plural reentrancies)

1. (computing) The state or condition of being reentrant.
   • 2011, Dogan Ibrahim, Advanced PIC Microcontroller Projects in C, Newnes, →ISBN, page 184:

     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.