re-entry

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See also: reentry and reëntry

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re- +‎ entry

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re-entry (countable and uncountable, plural re-entries)

  1. (countable, uncountable) The act of entering again.
    a re-entry into public life
    • 2024 January 10, Chris Gilson, “RAIL's famous five...”, in RAIL, number 1000, page 26:
      Shortly after its re-entry into traffic, it was named County Durham on October 1 that year, although it was denamed later.
  2. (aerospace) The return of a spacecraft into the Earth's atmosphere.
  3. (law) The reestablishment of possession under a right or rights reserved in a previous conveyance.
  4. (law) The act of retaking possession of land, etc.; the entry by a lessor upon the premises leased, on failure of the tenant to pay rent or perform the covenants in the lease.
  5. (music, of a ukulele) A break in the pitch order of strings.
  6. (physiology) The reactivation of (a region of) myocardial tissue by a single, returning impulse.
  7. (card games, bridge and whist) The act of retaking the lead by winning a trick.
  8. (card games, bridge and whist) A re-entry card.
  9. (surfing) A trick involving climbing a wave and then returning back down its face.

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