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REENTER
Etymology
Verb
reenter (third-person singular simple present reenters, present participle reentering, simple past and past participle reentered)
(ambitransitive) To enter again; return into.
(transitive, computing) To enter again; retype, reinput.
(ambitransitive, engraving) To cut deeper where the aqua fortis has not bitten sufficiently.
Anagrams
• enterer, re-entre, reentre, terreen, terrene
Source: Wiktionary
Re*ën"ter (r*n"tr), v. t.
1. To enter again.
2. (Engraving)
Definition: 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*ën"ter, v. i.
Definition: To enter anew or again. Reëntering angle, an angle of a polygon pointing inward, as a, in the cut.
– Reëntering polygon, a polygon having one or more reëntering angles.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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