'Reentry' definitions:
Definition of 'reentry'
(from WordNet)
noun
The act of entering again
Definition of 'Reentry'
From: GCIDE
- Reentry \Re*en"try\ (-tr?), n.
- 1. A second or new entry; as, a reentry into public life. [1913 Webster]
- 2. (Law) A resuming or retaking possession of what one has lately foregone; -- applied especially to 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. --Burrill. [1913 Webster]
- 3. (Astronautics) To enter (the Earth's atmosphere) after having passed beyond the atmosphere, as when in orbit or returning from another planet. [PJC]
- Card of reentry, (Whist), a card that by winning a trick will bring one the lead at an advanced period of the hand. [1913 Webster] re-equip
Synonyms of 'reentry'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- apogee,
- attitude-control rocket,
- backset,
- backsliding,
- backward motion,
- backward step,
- ballistic capsule,
- burn,
- capsule,
- deep-space ship,
- docking,
- docking maneuver,
- Earth insertion,
- ferry rocket,
- fuel ship,
- homecoming,
- injection,
- insertion,
- lapse,
- LEM,
- LM,
- lunar excursion module,
- lunar module,
- manned rocket,
- module,
- moon ship,
- multistage rocket,
- orbit,
- parking orbit,
- perigee,
- reaction,
- recession,
- recidivation,
- recidivism,
- recursion,
- reentrance,
- refluence,
- reflux,
- regress,
- regression,
- relapse,
- remigration,
- retroaction,
- retrocession,
- retroflexion,
- retrogradation,
- retrogression,
- retrusion,
- return,
- rocket,
- rollback,
- setback,
- shuttle rocket,
- soft landing,
- space capsule,
- space docking,
- space rocket,
- spacecraft,
- spaceship,
- sternway,
- throwback