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re-entry en · NOUN

Etymology

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.

Meanings

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

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
reëntry alternative lexicographic
re-entries Number=Plur lexicographic
reentry alternative lexicographic

Deriveds

re-entry card · reo

Relateds

reentrant

Translations (5)

es reentrada (the return of a spacecraft into the atmosphere) · es reingreso (the return of a spacecraft into the atmosphere) · hi पुनःप्रवेश (the return of a spacecraft into the atmosphere) · cmn 再入 (the return of a spacecraft into the atmosphere) · tl balipasok (the return of a spacecraft into the atmosphere)