reentrant
or re-en·trant
reentering or pointing inward: a reentrant angle.
a reentering angle or part.
a person or thing that reenters or returns: Reentrants to the engineering program must take the introductory course again.
Physical Geography. a prominent indentation in a coastline.: Compare salient (def. 6).
Origin of reentrant
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How to use reentrant in a sentence
Some of the cells (fig. 3, b) shew re-entrant curves, which prove that they have undergone division.
The Works of Francis Maitland Balfour, Volume 1 | Francis Maitland BalfourBut we can have a non-re-entrant path over the whole board in fourteen moves, starting from any given square.
Amusements in Mathematics | Henry Ernest DudeneyThe best re-entrant attempt is shown, in which each knight has to trespass twice on other parts.
Amusements in Mathematics | Henry Ernest DudeneyIf you break the line at I, you will have a non-re-entrant solution starting from any I square.
Amusements in Mathematics | Henry Ernest DudeneyAlthough we were not actually in the Salient itself, we were situated at the northern re-entrant to it.
Three years in France with the Guns: | C. A. Rose
British Dictionary definitions for re-entrant
/ (riːˈɛntrənt) /
(of an angle, esp in fortifications) pointing inwards: Compare salient (def. 2)
maths (of an angle in a polygon) greater than 180° and thus pointing inwards
an angle or part that points inwards
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