recon

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ɹɪˈkɒn/, /ˈɹiːkɒn/

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• (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)

1. (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 — see also reconnaissance

• Finnish: tiedustelu- (fi)
• French: reco (fr) f
• German: Aufklärung (de) f
• Turkish:

  Ottoman Turkish: كشف (keşf, keşif)

Verb

recon (third-person singular simple present recons, present participle reconning, simple past and past participle reconned)

1. (chiefly US, military slang) reconnoiter.

Synonyms

• recce (British, Canadian)

Translations

reconnoiter — see reconnoiter

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)

1. (genetics) The smallest genetic unit that is capable of undergoing recombination.

Translations

smallest genetic unit

Anagrams

• oncer, Oncer, Coren, Crone, coner, necro-, Creon, necro, Ceron, crone

Polish

Pronunciation

• (Lesser Poland):
  • (Eastern Lublin) IPA^(key): [ˈrɛ.t͡sɔn]

Noun

recon m inan

1. (Eastern Lublin, Chełm Land) alternative form of rycząg

Further reading

• Jan Karłowicz (1907), “rycząg”, in Jan Łoś, editors, Słownik gwar polskich [Dictionary of Polish dialects] (in Polish), volume 5: R S Ś T, Kraków: Akademia Umiejętności, page 78