re-entry

Meanings

1. The act of entering again.
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.
7. The act of retaking the lead by winning a trick.
8. A re-entry card.
9. A trick involving climbing a wave and then returning back down its face.

Etymology

From re- + entry.