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recon

/ɹɪˈkɒn/US/ˈɹikɑn/

recon noun: reconnaissance.

Noun (1)

recon (countable and uncountable, plural recons)

  1. (US, slang) reconnaissance.
    • 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.2008, BioWare, Mass Effect (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →ISBN, →OCLC, PC, scene: Carbonaceous Asteroid, Phoenix
    • “Well, now that we're wrapped up, I gotta do recon for the big mish. Be back in two or three or ten days.”2026 March 1, Brett Cawley & Robert Maitia, “The Flume Flume Room” (6:33 from the start), in American Dad!, season 22, episode 2, spoken by Stan Smith (Seth MacFarlane)
  2. A hairstyle in which the sides of the head are shaven and the crest is cropped close.

Verb

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

  1. (US, slang) reconnoiter.
    Synonyms:
    recce

Noun (2)

recon (plural recons)

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

recon meaning in Tamil

recon in Tamil

மாறி இணையும் அலகு

Synonyms of recon

Forms of recon

Noun
pluralrecons
Verb
third-person singular presentrecons
present participlereconning
past participlereconned
pastreconned

Plural of recon: recons

Origin of recon

Contracted form of reconnaissance.

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."

Words that rhyme with recon

Questions about recon

What does recon mean?
Recon means reconnaissance.
What is recon in Tamil?
Recon in Tamil is மாறி இணையும் அலகு. See Recon meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is recon?
Recon can be a noun or a verb.
How do you pronounce recon?
Recon is pronounced /ɹɪˈkɒn/ (UK).
What is the plural of recon?
The plural of recon is recons.

Words near recon in the dictionary

  1. recomputations
  2. recompute
  3. recomputed
  4. recomputes
  5. recomputing
  6. recon
  7. reconaissance
  8. reconcatenate
  9. reconcatenated
  10. reconcatenates
  11. reconcatenating

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Adapted from Wiktionary: recon (page history and authors); recon (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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