Re-entry
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Re-entry is a noun meaning (countable, uncountable) The act of entering again.
Meaning
(countable, uncountable) The act of entering again.
More Meanings
- (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.
- (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.
- (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.
Example Sentences
a re-entry into public life
Shortly after its re-entry into traffic, it was named County Durham on October 1 that year, although it was denamed later.
Word Forms
- re-entries
- reentry
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include reintegration, reinsertion, reintegrate, reinstatement, reentry, readmission.
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