英和和英

発音

• (英国発音) IPA: /ɹɪˈkɒn/, /ˈɹiːkɒn/
• (米国発音) IPA: /ˈɹikɑn/, /ɹɪˈkɑn/
• 韻: (英国発音) -ɒn, (英国発音) -iːkɒn, (米国発音) -ɑn

語源 1

Contracted form of reconnaissance.

名詞

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.

動詞

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

1. (chiefly US, military slang) reconnoiter.

同意語

• recce (British, Canadian)

語源 2

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."

名詞

recon (plural recons)

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

参照

アナグラム

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