re-entry

Noun

re-entry (countable and uncountable, plural re-entries)

1. The act of entering again.
   • a re-entry into public life
   • 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
2. The return of a spacecraft into the Earth's atmosphere.
3. The reestablishment of possession under a right or rights reserved in a previous conveyance.
4. 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. Of a ukulele, a break in the pitch order of strings.
6. The reactivation of (a region of) myocardial tissue by a single, returning impulse.
7. The act of retaking the lead by winning a trick.
8. A re-entry card.
9. A trick involving climbing a wave and then returning back down its face.