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reconnoissance

reconnoissance is the alternative spelling of reconnaissance.

Meaning of reconnaissance

Noun

reconnaissance (countable and uncountable, plural reconnaissances)

  1. The act of scouting or exploring (especially military or medical) to gain information.
    • The third member, Sergeant Pieter Rousseau, had been with the back-up teams at the Hub; he was an expert on space reconnaissance instrumentation, but on this trip he would have to depend on his own eyes and a small portable telescope.1973, Arthur C. Clarke, Rendezvous with Rama

Forms of reconnoissance

pluralreconnoissances

Questions about reconnoissance

What is reconnoissance the alternative spelling of?
Reconnoissance is the alternative spelling of reconnaissance.

Words near reconnoissance in the dictionary

  1. reconnects
  2. reconned
  3. reconnexion
  4. reconnexions
  5. reconning
  6. reconnoissance
  7. reconnoissances
  8. reconnoiter
  9. reconnoitered
  10. reconnoiterer
  11. reconnoiterers

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Adapted from Wiktionary: reconnoissance (page history and authors); reconnaissance (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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