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reentry

reentry is the alternative form of re-entry.

Meaning of re-entry

Noun

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

  1. The act of entering again.
    • a re-entry into public life
  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.

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Forms of reentry

pluralreentries

Words formed from reentry

Phrases with reentry

Questions about reentry

What is reentry the alternative form of?
Reentry is the alternative form of re-entry.

Words near reentry in the dictionary

  1. reentrusted
  2. reentrusting
  3. reentrustment
  4. reentrustments
  5. reentrusts
  6. reentry
  7. reenvelop
  8. reenveloped
  9. reenveloping
  10. reenvelops
  11. reenverse

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