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English
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
Clipping 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.
2026 March 1, Brett Cawley & Robert Maitia, “The Flume Flume Room” (6:33 from the start), in American Dad![2], season 22, episode 2, spoken by Stan Smith (Seth MacFarlane):“Well, now that we're wrapped up, I gotta do recon for the big mish. Be back in two or three or ten days.”
- A hairstyle in which the sides of the head are shaven and the crest is cropped close.
Translations
Etymology 2
Clipping of reconnoiter.
Verb
recon (third-person singular simple present recons, present participle reconning, simple past and past participle reconned)
- (chiefly US, military slang) To reconnoiter.
Synonyms
- recce (British, Canadian)
Translations
Etymology 3
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]
Noun
recon (plural recons)
- (genetics) The smallest genetic unit that is capable of undergoing recombination.
Translations
Etymology 4
Clipping of reconstruction.
Noun
recon (plural recons)
- (informal) A reconstruction.
2001 February 1, Clive Backham, “Top knee surgeons in UK?”, in rec.skiing.resorts.europe[3] (Usenet):You need to find out if a recon is necessary and get the op done asap in order for her to ski next season.
2001 March 7, LPPCQ Snarky, “last stop”, in alt.flame[4] (Usenet):I presume you mean the existing stories -- or have you actually gotten the recons? Reconstructions of missing stories, that is, and the various episodes of incomplete stories.
2002 September 15, Wade Wofford, “White Paleo-Americsns:[sic] X Factor / Recent Finds in Paleoanthropology”, in alt.native[5] (Usenet):Don't be an idiot, he knew full well that Whites had invaded the Americas in 1493 (1492 was just a recon).
2014 July 23, Joshua Albert, “no meeting this week”, in EXO neutrons[6] (Google Groups):Being as there won't be a recon meeting tomorrow, I guess we can discuss it via email.
2016 March 29, Sen Jia, “questions when using Gadgetron for 3D recon”, in Gadgetron[7] (Google Groups):Still using GT_3DT_Cartesian.xml for 3D recon, we found that sometimes the reconstructed images along partition direction were in the reverse order comparing with Siemens’s recon (with wrong slice positions), and also found there existed a code fragment to do the operation of “flip along E2”after FFT to image in gtPlusISMRMRDReconWorker3DT.h.
2017 July 12, <[email protected]>, “temp recons for past 2k years”, in alt.global-warming[8] (Usenet):A global multiproxy database for temperature reconstructions of the Common Era
2018 July 17, Harms, Michael, “[BEP001] acq- vs part- keys”, in bids-discussion[9] (Google Groups):What exactly is “part” intended to convey? To me, “phase” and “mag” are different types of recons, and thus most naturally related to the “rec” tag.
2025 July 3, Isaac Wilson, “Tyrannosaurus rex "Goliath"”, in Dinosaur Mailing Group[10] (Google Groups):I'm not certain that I'd consider modern reconstructions as "air-bellied," given how the skeletal recons I linked portray the bellies as having the ribs and gastralia as close as possible as seen in the largest living archosaurs, alligators and crocodiles. […] I'm just curious what the objective difference is between your recons and the majority of other paleontologists, apart from ecological presuppositions and anatomical comparisons to modern mammalian predators that seem more adapted for speed-based predation.
References
- ^ Seymour Benzer (1957), “The elementary units of heredity”, in McElroy WD, Glass B, editors, The Chemical Basis of Heredity[1], Baltimore, Maryland: Johns Hopkins Press, page 71
Anagrams
Polish
Pronunciation
Noun
recon m inan
- (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
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