re-entry

See also: reentry and reëntry

English

Etymology tree

Proto-Italic *wre-

Latin re-der.

Old French re-bor.

Middle English re-

English re-

English entry

English re-entry

From re- + entry.

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

(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.
(aerospace) The return of a spacecraft into the Earth's atmosphere.
(law) The reestablishment of possession under a right or rights reserved in a previous conveyance.
(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.
(music) Of a ukulele, a break in the pitch order of strings.
(physiology) The reactivation of (a region of) myocardial tissue by a single, returning impulse.
(card games, bridge, whist) The act of retaking the lead by winning a trick.
(card games, bridge, whist) A re-entry card.
(surfing) A trick involving climbing a wave and then returning back down its face.

the return of a spacecraft into the atmosphere