recon
recon · recons
ReconnaissanceReconnaissance.
UK/ɹɪˈkɒn/US/ˈɹikɑn/
» I spent a few weeks on the moon on a recon mission.
Meaning
3 senses(US, countable, slang, uncountable)Reconnaissance.
Aufklärung
(countable, uncountable)A hairstyle in which the sides of the head are shaven and the crest is cropped close.
The smallest genetic unit that is capable of undergoing recombination.
Examples
2 sentencesI spent a few weeks on the moon on a recon mission.
Recon the surroundings.
Translations
2 languagesDeutsch
reconnaissance:
Origin
Contracted form of reconnaissance. Contracted form of recombination + -on, coined by AmerContracted form of reconnaissance.
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."
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Forms
plural: reconsLessons for this word
1 lessons- A1Countable and uncountable nouns — Because it can be uncountable