recon
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English
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /ɹɪˈkɒn/, /ˈɹiːkɒn/
Audio (Southern England): (file) Audio (Southern England): (file) - (US) IPA(key): /ˈɹikɑn/, /ɹɪˈkɑn/
- Rhymes: (UK) -ɒn, (UK) -iːkɒn, (US) -ɑn
Etymology 1
Contracted form of reconnaissance.
Noun
recon (countable and uncountable, plural recons)
- (chiefly US, military slang) reconnaissance.
- 2008, BioWare, Mass Effect (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →ISBN, →OCLC, PC, scene: Carbonaceous Asteroid, Phoenix:
- During a scan of the Phoenix system asteroid field, you detected an odd energy reading that Tali determined was quarian in nature. She led a recon team into the asteroid field, where she discovered an abandoned freighter.
Translations
reconnaissance
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Verb
recon (third-person singular simple present recons, present participle reconning, simple past and past participle reconned)
- (chiefly US, military slang) reconnoiter.
Synonyms
- recce (British, Canadian)
Etymology 2
Contracted form of recombination + -on, coined by American molecular biologist Seymour Benzer in 1957 as " the smallest element in the one-dimensional array that is interchangeable (but not divisible) by genetic recombination."
Noun
recon (plural recons)
- (genetics) The smallest genetic unit that is capable of undergoing recombination.
Translations
smallest genetic unit
References
- ^ Seymour Benzer (1957) “The elementary units of heredity”, in McElroy WD, Glass B, editors, The Chemical Basis of Heredity, Baltimore, Maryland: Johns Hopkins Press, page 71