re-entry
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editre-entry (countable and uncountable, plural re-entries)
- (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.
- (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.
- (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.
- (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 and whist) The act of retaking the lead by winning a trick.
- (card games, bridge and whist) A re-entry card.
- (surfing) A trick involving climbing a wave and then returning back down its face.
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editthe return of a spacecraft into the atmosphere