re-entry

• reentry, reëntry (rare)

From re- + entry.

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, whist) The act of retaking the lead by winning a trick.
8. (card games, bridge, whist) A re-entry card.
9. (surfing) A trick involving climbing a wave and then returning back down its face.

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