different between valley vs reentrant

English

Etymology

From Middle English valey, valeye, from Anglo-Norman valey, Old French valee (compare French vallée), from Latin vall?s/vallis. Doublet of vlei.

Pronunciation

• enPR: v?l'?, IPA^(key): /?væli/
• Rhymes: -æli

Noun

valley (plural valleys)

1. An elongated depression between hills or mountains, often with a river flowing through it.

   Synonyms: (poetic) vale; see also Thesaurus:valley
2. The area which drains into a river.
3. Any structure resembling one, e.g., the meeting point of two pitched roofs.
4. The internal angle formed by the intersection of two sloping roof planes.

Hyponyms

• closed-cut valley
• open valley

Derived terms

Translations

See also

• dale
• dell
• vale

Anagrams

• y'all've

Manx

Noun

valley

1. Lenited form of balley.

English

Alternative forms

• re-entrant
• reëntrant (obsolete)

Etymology

re- +? entrant

Adjective

reentrant (not comparable)

1. Reentering; pointing inward.
2. (programming, of a mutual exclusion mechanism) Such that the corresponding lock can be reacquired by the locking thread.

   The global interpreter lock of the embedded scripting engine is not reentrant.

3. (programming) That may be executed more than once at a time either by different threads, or because of recursion.

   Global variables must not be altered by reentrant code.

4. (transport, of a part of a rocket) Designed to return to the Earth's atmosphere.
5. (physiology) Of or pertaining to reentry (in the heart)
6. (music, of a ukulele or similar instrument) Having the strings not ordered according to pitch (having a re-entry)

Derived terms

• macroreentrant
• microreentrant

Noun

reentrant (plural reentrants)

1. An angle or part that reenters itself.
2. One who enters (the labour market, etc.) again.
3. (geography) A valley between a pair of parallel ridges

See also

• reusable