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re-ˈentering, ppl. a.
[f. prec. + -ing2.]
1. a. re-entering angle, an angle pointing inward.
1696Phillips (ed. 5) s.v. Angle, Re-entring Angle, is that which re-enters into the body of the place. 1723Chambers tr. Le Clerc's Treat. Archit. I. 95 The Inner or Re-entering Angles. 1805–17R. Jameson Char. Min. (ed. 3) 175 Salient, and never re-entering angles. 1877Huxley & Martin Elem. Biol. 43 The branches spring from the re-entering angle between the stem and the leaf.
b. So re-entering bend, re-entering line, re-entering order, re-entering place, re-entering wall.
1830E. S. N. Campbell Mil. Dict. 182 The object of the Re-entering Places of Arms is to flank the branches of the covered way. 1841Penny Cycl. XIX. 346/1 To break the lines of parapet near the gorges, so as to form re-entering bends. 1873Tristram Moab v. 74 Each of the flanking or re-entering walls extending in an obtuse angle from it. 1876Voyle & Stevenson Milit. Dict. 335/1 Re-entering order of battle. 1885W. C. Coupland Spir. Goethe's Faust vi. 208 The industrialism of the present is only a point in a re-entering historic line.
2. Returning into a place.
1850Grote Greece ii. lxvi. (1862) VI. 9 The re-entering exiles from Peiræus, and the Horsemen..blended again together into one harmonious..democracy. 1958Punch 17 Sept. 361/1 Re-entering nose-cones. 1959Daily Tel. 14 Apr. 1/7 The proposed American attempt to catch a re-entering satellite is a very long shot indeed. 1974Encycl. Brit. Macropædia XV. 938/2 In the early 1960s a new technique..was developed, using materials similar to those employed as heat shields for re-entering space vehicles. |