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recon

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Etymology 1

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Contracted form of reconnaissance.

Noun

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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.
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Verb

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

  1. (chiefly US, military slang) reconnoiter.
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  • recce (British, Canadian)

Etymology 2

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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

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recon (plural recons)

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

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