Definition of "re-entry" in Englisch

noun

1. (countable, uncountable) The act of entering again.

   • a re-entry into public life

2. (aerospace) The return of a spacecraft into the Earth's atmosphere.

3. (law) The reestablishment of possession under a right or rights reserved in a previous conveyance.

4. (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.

5. (music) Of a ukulele, a break in the pitch order of strings.

6. (physiology) The reactivation of (a region of) myocardial tissue by a single, returning impulse.

7. (card games, bridge, whist) The act of retaking the lead by winning a trick.

8. (card games, bridge, whist) A re-entry card.

9. (surfing) A trick involving climbing a wave and then returning back down its face.