reentrant

American  

[ree-en-truhnt] / riˈɛn trənt /

Or re-entrant

adjective

1. reentering or pointing inward.

   a reentrant angle.

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noun

1. a reentering angle or part.

2. a person or thing that reenters or returns.

   Reentrants to the engineering program must take the introductory course again.

3. Physical Geography. a prominent indentation in a coastline.

Etymology

Origin of reentrant

First recorded in 1775–85; re- + entrant

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Example Sentences

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reentrant

Abnormalities in cardiac impulse propagation underlie lethal reentrant arrhythmias, including ventricular fibrillation.

From Science Magazine ● Sep. 28, 2011

But, oh! my little friends of the north; my struggling, strenuous, introspective, self-analysing, autoscopic, and generally reentrant friends, who spout the 'Hue!

From The Path to Rome by Hilaire Belloc

The immense size of the cave—or overhanging, reentrant cliff, whichever one chooses to call it—dwarfed the houses, so that they looked like toy houses.

From A Book-Lover's Holidays in the Open by Theodore Roosevelt

It was not merely sheer, but reentrant, making a huge, arched, shallow cave, several hundred feet high, and at least a hundred—perhaps a hundred and fifty—feet deep, the overhang being enormous.

From A Book-Lover's Holidays in the Open by Theodore Roosevelt

Frowning hills and rolling sand dunes are to be thrown bodily into the reentrant bay.

From The Little Lady of Lagunitas A Franco-Californian Romance by Richard Savage

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