英和和英

語源 1

Contracted form of reconnaissance.

名詞

recon (countable かつ uncountable, 複数形 recons)

1. (chiefly US, military slang) reconnaissance.
   • 2008, BioWare, Mass Effect (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →ISBN, OCLC 246633669, 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 (三人称単数 現在形 recons, 現在分詞 reconning, 過去形および過去分詞形 reconned)

1. (chiefly US, military slang) reconnoiter.

同意語

• recce (英国用法, カナダ用法)

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."^[1]

名詞

recon (複数形 recons)

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

参照