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Reenter

Re-en′ter

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Re-en′ter

(r?-?n′t?r)
,
Verb.
T.
1.
To enter again;
as, You cannot
re-enter
the country with this visa
.
2.
(Engraving)
To cut deeper, as engraved lines on a plate of metal, when the engraving has not been deep enough, or the plate has become worn in printing.

Re-en′ter

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Verb.
I.
To enter anew or again.
Reentering angle
,
an angle of a polygon pointing inward, as a, in the cut.
Reentering polygon
,
a polygon having one or more reentering angles.

Definition 2024


reënter

reënter

See also: reenter and re-enter

English

Verb

reënter (third-person singular simple present reënters, present participle reëntering, simple past and past participle reëntered)

  1. Alternative spelling of reenter
    • 1901, Washington, Booker T., chapter 4, in Up from Slavery: An Autobiography, New York: A. L. Burt, LCCN 18006890, page 66:
      To my gratification he told me I could reënter the institution, and that he would trust me to pay the debt when I could.
    • 1913, Gray, Henry, Anatomy, Descriptive and Applied, new American/18th English edition, Philadelphia; New York: Lea & Febiger, page 762:
      It consists chiefly of intersegmental fibres which arise from cells in the gray substance, and, after a longer or shorter course, reënter the gray substance and ramify in it.
    • 1922, Lawrence, D. H., chapter 1, in Fantasia of the Unconscious, New York: Thomas Seltzer, page 11:
      I am almost ashamed to say, that I believe the souls of the dead in some way reënter and pervade the souls of the living: so that life is always the life of living creatures, and death is always our affair.

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