re-entry

Definitions

• (countable) The act of entering again.
• The return of a spacecraft into the Earth's atmosphere.
• (legal) The reestablishment of possession under a right or rights reserved in a previous conveyance.
• (legal) 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) A break in the pitch order of strings.
• (physiology) The reactivation of (a region of) myocardial tissue by a single, returning impulse.
• (card games) The act of retaking the lead by winning a trick.
• (card games) A re-entry card.