2. Verb. (chiefly US military slang) reconnoiter. ¹
3. Noun. (context: Genetics) The smallest genetic unit that is capable of undergoing recombination. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Recon
1. to reconnoiter [v -CONNED, -CONNING, -CONS] - See also: reconnoiter
Medical Definition of Recon
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Recon
Literary usage of Recon
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1896)
"He is interested in angling, and was in 1891 employed under the late Commissioner
MacDonald to make a recon- ..."
2. American Book Prices Current (1921)
"Incognita: or, Love and Duty recon- cil'd. Lond., 1713. 8vo. Sewed, unc., Forman,
A., Mar. IS, '20. (198) $15.00. Memoirs of his Life, Writings, and Amours. ..."
3. Reconstruction, Political and Economic, 1865-1877 by William Archibald Dunning (1907)
"Among y the majority there prevailed, of course, the same variety and uncertainty
of opinion about recon- *, struction that were prevalent among the people ..."
4. History of the United States from the Compromise of 1850 by James Ford Rhodes (1906)
"... to this House and to this nation whether a portion of the debt shall not be
paid by the confiscated property of the rebels."2 Sumner thought the recon- ..."
5. History of the United States from the Compromise of 1850 by James Ford Rhodes (1906)
"... to this House and to this nation whether a portion of the debt shall not be
paid by the confiscated property of the rebels."z Sumner thought the recon- ..."
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