Definition of "reentry" [reentry]

• The act of reentering. (noun)
• Law The recovery of possession under a right reserved in a previous property transaction. (noun)
• Games The act of regaining the lead by taking a trick in bridge and whist. (noun)
• Games The card that will take a trick and thus regain the lead. (noun)
• Aerospace The return of a missile or spacecraft into Earth's atmosphere. (noun)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "Employment, when in the process of reentry, is that which enables an ex-offender to obtain housing, and transportation, and to pay fines."
• "Lifting reentry is what I'd pick and the HL-20 style airframe will do the job just fine."
• "Winged spacecraft rely on precise and accurate computer control form their flight/navigational computers to keep stability in reentry."