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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
re-entry
noun
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ The shuttle made a successful re-entry into the Earth's atmosphere.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Beneath them the underside of the command module comprised a specially designed shield that protected them from the heat of re-entry.
▪ Even the government's re-entry into the gilts market as public borrowing has risen is seen as a sign of hope.
▪ If there was a re-entry in the present case, it was not effected by the changing of the lock.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
re-entry

also reentry, mid-15c., "act of entering again," from re- "again" + entry; probably on model of Middle French rentrer (12c.). Specifically of spacecraft from 1948.

Wiktionary
re-entry

alt. 1 The act of retaking possession of land, etc. 2 The return of a spacecraft into the Earth's atmosphere. n. 1 The act of retaking possession of land, etc. 2 The return of a spacecraft into the Earth's atmosphere.

Wikipedia
Re-Entry (Big Brovaz album)

Re-Entry is the second album released by UK R&B/ hip-hop collective Big Brovaz. After the album was delayed in May 2006, the band finally release the follow-up to "Nu Flow" on 9 April 2007. Following the first single, " Yours Fatally" and the second single "Hangin' Around", the third single from the album, "Big Bro Thang", was received a staggared download only single release in February and March 2007. The album release also contain the Booty Luv hit " Boogie 2nite" as a bonus track.

Track 15 ("Boogie 2nite") is a remix by DJ Teddy-O and is now also available on the maxi CD of Booty Luv's "Shine"

Re-Entry (Marley Marl album)

Re-entry is a 2001 studio album by Marley Marl, released on Barely Breaking Even Records.

Re-Entry (Techno Animal album)

Re-Entry is the second album by the Illbient band Techno Animal, released on June 20, 1995 through Virgin Records.

Usage examples of "re-entry".

Like the adult barnacle, the exterior of the ring was dotted with light-sensitive photophores, and when a suitable place for attachment was sensed, the ring colony was able to orient itself by means of excretions sprayed through pores in the skin of the tube, a method not dissimilar to that utilized by orbital vessels when aligning themselves for re-entry.

A ten-tonne projectile protected against re-entry ablation, travelling at orbital velocity, was a thousand times cheaper than nuclear or electroncompression weapons.

He was up as straight as a ramrod for Butch's re-entry, and over coffee and cake they snogged and canoodled like a couple of sweaty college kids no, not like that, more like a couple of actors in the pre-credits sequence of an adult movie.

Either Dahak had sufficient power to repair the damage, in which case the ship is, in fact, fully operational and would destroy him or his minions, or else Dahak had insufficient power to decontaminate the vessel's interior, in which case re-entry would remain effectively impossible without Imperial technology-which would activate any operational defensive programming.

In places the going was flat, or very nearly so: scree-filled basins, domed plateaux, rocky re-entries and pine-clad saddles.

If the heat shield was loose, then it might come off during the re-entry, unless the retropack straps held it in place long enough for the capsule to establish its angle of re-entry.