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Reentry   Listen
noun
Reentry  n.  
1.
A second or new entry; as, a reentry into public life.
2.
(Law) A resuming or retaking possession of what one has lately foregone; applied especially to land; the entry by a lessor upon the premises leased, on failure of the tenant to pay rent or perform the covenants in the lease.
3.
(Astronautics) To enter (the Earth's atmosphere) after having passed beyond the atmosphere, as when in orbit or returning from another planet.
Card of reentry, (Whist), a card that by winning a trick will bring one the lead at an advanced period of the hand.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Reentry" Quotes from Famous Books



... miles passed for Faversham in a double excitement he had some difficulty in concealing; the physical excitement of change and movement, of this reentry upon a new world, which was the old; and the mental ...
— The Mating of Lydia • Mrs. Humphry Ward



Words linked to "Reentry" :   return, re-enter



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