Meaning of re-entry in English:

re-entry

Translate re-entry into Spanish

nounre-entries

mass noun

1The action or process of re-entering something.
‘programmes designed to prepare you for re-entry to the profession’
- ‘When Rochester was granted re-entry to the Goulburn Valley league the following year, after almost five decades in the Bendigo competition, many players failed to return.’
- ‘The powers that be in cricket had seen enough changes in South Africa to grant us re-entry and a chance to play against the top countries in the world.’
- ‘One of the unfortunate aspects of the ‘tough on crime’ attitude of the 1990s was a severe cutback in prison-based programs to prepared inmates for re-entry into society.’
- ‘Tyler Imanian was home schooled by his mother this summer to prepare him for re-entry into an American school.’
- ‘Their problem was that the new baby's father had a criminal record which would prevent his re-entry to the United States of America.’
- ‘But without question, Mr. Vander Zalm's re-entry into active politics at the party's Prince George convention instantly changed the political landscape in the province.’
- ‘The re-entry of right-wing tax-cutting governments to power in European countries like Spain and France is likely to hasten economic deterioration, as unemployment rises and interest rates are increased.’
- ‘Tonight when asking about Ken Livingston's re-entry into the Labour party host Charles Brandreth asked: ‘Who has withdrawn to ease Ken's passage?’’
- ‘Maharaj said he had nothing personal to gain from any re-entry to politics; this was, rather, in keeping with his need to ‘put country first.’’
- ‘However, from this week, the government will go on an all-out campaign to find these illegal aliens, deport them back to their countries and restrict their re-entry into Korea.’
- ‘But since his election defeat in 1997 he has apparently undergone a personal conversion, calling for his party to be more inclusive since his re-entry into Parliament.’
- ‘The emigrants, who are in the US illegally, are afraid to come home for the holiday, because they are likely to be refused re-entry to the States by the US authorities.’
- ‘Perhaps the more exciting announcement to come out of Crewe is the revelation of the company's re-entry into motorsport, specifically the 24-hour Le Mans race.’
- ‘The election was also a victory for women, providing them with an opportunity for a very symbolic re-entry into Afghan public life.’
- ‘Americans who flout the rules are often caught and barred from re-entry, meaning they either get back on their bus or flight and return to foreign soil or are held in the airport or border station lobby.’
- ‘Arrangements have been made to provide free visas for any national seeking re-entry to Nepal provided such tourists have stayed for at least 15 days in the country in a visa year.’
- ‘The Mayor of London, once ostracised by the Labour leadership, has won re-entry to the party by passing the ultimate test - proving himself electorally unassailable.’
- ‘Since its re-entry into the Olympic movement in 1979, it has regularly found itself near the top of the medal table, as befits a country populated by 1.3 billion.’
- ‘The essentials are a microchip for identification, a rabies vaccination certificate, and the elapse of six months between the dates of a clean blood sample and re-entry.’
- ‘He was then refused re-entry to France, while the authorities tried to find a country willing to accept the middle-aged Iranian with no country, no home and no passport.’
1. 1.1The return of a spacecraft or missile into the earth's atmosphere.
  ‘the heat of re-entry’
  ‘a re-entry vehicle’
  ‘On February 1, 2003, the Columbia and its crew were lost over the western United States during the spacecraft's re-entry into Earth's atmosphere.’
  ‘Nasa planned to stick to its original work schedule and inspect only the nose and wings yesterday, examining the dozens of reinforced carbon panels that withstand the heat during re-entry into Earth's atmosphere.’
  ‘‘You can also determine how much of your spacecraft might survive re-entry and possibly pose a risk to people on the ground,’ says Klinkrad.’
  ‘Euve did not have an on-board propulsion system to allow engineers to control the spacecraft's re-entry.’
  ‘After 15 years of service in outer space, Mir made its re-entry to earth.’
  ‘Their purpose is to handle the enormous heat and stress of re-entry into the atmosphere.’
  ‘The previous column discussed the effects of long term accelerations such as those experienced during motor burn or re-entry of a commercial space vehicle.’
  ‘Dr Haines said space travel was inevitably dangerous but re-entry into the earth's atmosphere had been successfully done many times before.’
  ‘At the end of its six-month mission, Jules Verne will offload solid waste and wastewater from the Station and burn up during atmospheric re-entry over the Pacific Ocean.’
  ‘The first spaceflight went well until atmosphere re-entry, when cables linking the capsule and the instrument module failed to separate completely.’
  ‘The nuclear warhead must survive exit from and re-entry to the earth's atmosphere at massive speed, accompanied by extremes of temperature.’
  ‘Plasma is a superheated gas surrounding the Orbiter during re-entry.’
  ‘So it might be worthwhile to revisit the process of re-entry and examine what happened a year ago as the unpowered, 100-ton glider returned to Earth from 200 miles up.’
  ‘As it turns out, the shuttle has some spacers between its tiles that have come out a bit and so the crew needs to cut them off so as to prevent what they call a blow torch effect on re-entry.’
  ‘An experimental data recorder aboard the space shuttle Columbia continued to record potentially vital information until moments before the shuttle disintegrated during re-entry, investigators say.’
  ‘After the initial shock and sorrow of Saturday's tragedy, in which seven crew members died when the shuttle broke apart during re-entry, by midday yesterday we seemed to be already tuning the story out.’
  ‘The tiles are designed to keep the 1,649C temperatures generated during re-entry from reaching and melting the aluminium hull of the shuttle.’
  ‘Some engineers worry the material that is protruding from between thermal tiles in two areas beneath the shuttle near its nose could trigger potentially treacherous overheating during re-entry.’
  ‘Nasa officials had determined the exposed ceramic-fibre fillers could lead to overheating and a possible repeat of Columbia's disastrous re-entry.’
  ‘The death of Columbia came as little surprise to most space scientists concerned about the incredible stresses that launch and re-entry were putting on the ageing four-strong shuttle fleet.’
  alighting, arrival, coming in, deplaning
2Law
The action of retaking or repossession.
‘a proviso reserving to the landlord a right of re-entry’
- ‘a re-entry under the lease’
- ‘The Defendants are accordingly entitled to treat the Sublease as forfeited when peaceable re-entry took place.’
- ‘When a lessee commits a breach of covenant on which the lessor has a right of re-entry, he may elect to avoid or not to avoid the lease, and he may do so by deed or by word.’
- ‘He would not think that the pension trustees intended to bring the tenancy to an end by re-entry in three weeks time.’
- ‘Lastly, a person who has been wrongfully dispossessed may undertake a form of self-help known as re-entry.’
- ‘The time for completion expired in 2001 and the right of re-entry arose on that date.’
3count noun A visible duplication of part of the design for a postage stamp due to an inaccurate first impression.
1. 3.1A stamp displaying a re-entry.