re-entry
The English word “re-entry” has 9 meanings listed here.
noun
- The act of entering again.
- The return of a spacecraft into the Earth's atmosphere.
- The reestablishment of possession under a right or rights reserved in a previous conveyance.
- 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.
- Of a ukulele, a break in the pitch order of strings.
- The reactivation of (a region of) myocardial tissue by a single, returning impulse.
- The act of retaking the lead by winning a trick.
- A re-entry card.
- A trick involving climbing a wave and then returning back down its face.
Etymology
From re- + entry.
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