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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