Reentry

Alternative forms

• re-entry

Origin

- + entry

Full definition of reentry

Noun

1. The act of reentering.a reentry into public life
2. The return of a spacecraft into the atmosphere.
3. (physiology) The reactivation of (a region of) myocardial tissue by a single, returning impulse
4. A resuming or retaking possession of what one has lately foregone, especially 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.

Derived terms

• card of reentry
• reentrant