recon

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ɹɪˈkɒn/, /ˈɹiːkɒn/

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• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈɹikɑn/, /ɹɪˈkɑn/
• Rhymes: (UK) -ɒn, (UK) -iːkɒn, (US) -ɑn

Contracted form of reconnaissance.

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.

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

1. (chiefly US, military slang) reconnoiter.

• recce (British, Canadian)

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."^[1]

recon (plural recons)

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

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

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

recon m inan

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

• 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