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Re-enter

Rē-ĕn'ter, v. t.

verbtransitive

v. t. [imp. & p. p. RE-ENTERED; p. pr. & vb. n. RE-ENTERING.] [Prefix re and enter.]

To enter again or anew.
(Engraving.) To cut deeper, as those incisions of the plate which the acid has not bitten in sufficiently, or which have become worn in printing. Fairholt.

Rē-ĕn'ter, v. i.

verbintransitive

v. i. To enter anew or again. Re-entering angle, an angle of a polygon pointing inward, as a, in the cut. — Re-entering polygon, a polygon having one or more re-entering angles. Math. Dict.

An irregular concave polygon with an inward angle marked a.