recon
nounverbnounattested in dialogue
- United Kingdom//ɹɪˈkɒn//
- United Kingdom//ˈɹiːkɒn//
- United States//ˈɹikɑn//
- United States//ɹɪˈkɑn//
reconnaissance.
noun
- 1
slangreconnaissance.
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.
“Well, now that we're wrapped up, I gotta do recon for the big mish. Be back in two or three or ten days.”
- 2
A hairstyle in which the sides of the head are shaven and the crest is cropped close.
Etymology
Contracted form of reconnaissance.
verb
- 1
slangreconnoiter.
noun
- 1
The smallest genetic unit that is capable of undergoing recombination.
Etymology
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."
Forms
- plural
- recons
- past tense
- reconned
- past participle
- reconned
- present participle
- reconning
- third person singular
- recons