ENGLISH DICTIONARY

Reenter

Definition, Meaning & Examples

Part of speech verb

Quick meaning: Reenter is a verb meaning (ambitransitive) To enter again; return into.

Meaning

(ambitransitive) To enter again; return into.

More Meanings

  1. (transitive, computing) To enter again; retype, reinput.
  2. (ambitransitive, engraving) To cut deeper where the aqua fortis has not bitten sufficiently.

Example Sentences

The shuttle reentered the atmosphere.
We had to reenter a day's worth of data into the system.
It is no accident that capital punishment is reentering our society on the wave of the conservative reaction to the permissiveness and laxity of the past two decades.
As the zoogleal slime reenters the wastewater, excess solids and waste products are stripped off the media as sloughings. These sloughings are transported with the wastewater flow to a settling tank for removal.

Word Forms

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include reintroduce, re-introduce, reinsert, rejoin, reintegrate, re-enter.

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