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▪ I. reˈcon, v.1
[re- 5 a.]
trans. To con again. Hence reˈconning vbl. n.
1651Hobbes Leviath. i. iii. 10 As he that foresees what wil become of a Criminal, re-cons what he has seen follow on the like Crime before. Ibid., This we call Remembrance, or calling to mind: the Latines call it Reminiscentia, as it were a Re-conning of our former actions.
▪ II. recon, v.2 U.S. Mil. slang.|rɪˈkɒn|
trans. and intr. Abbrev. of reconnoitre v.
1966National Observer (U.S.) 26 Dec. 1/4 We launched a small operation and while reconning the area, saw a bunch of color near a tree line. 1969I. Kemp Brit. G.I. in Vietnam v. 96 Our orders are to recon only, and avoid all contact with the enemy whatsoever.
▪ III. recon, n.1 U.S. Mil. slang.|rɪˈkɒn|
Abbrev. of reconnaissance; a reconnaissance unit. Freq. attrib., as recon company, recon unit (etc.). Cf. recce n.
1918E. M. Roberts Flying Fighter 337 Long Recon, a trip of from 20 to 80 miles behind the Hun lines to gather information. 1942Yank 25 Nov. 21 He was temporarily with the recon. 1943J. Goodell They sent me to Iceland ii. 31 Convoyed by jeeps and recon cars we sped through the town. 1946Sun (Baltimore) 27 July 12/1 (heading) Ex-Patton recon unit to parade in Cumberland. 1948N. Mailer Naked & Dead i. ii. 20 The men in recon looked small and lost in comparison to the other platoons. 1950‘D. Divine’ King of Fassarai xiv. 108 Should have the recon reports by now. Get through to Air Command again. 1968Globe & Mail (Toronto) 13 Feb. 4/1 It is recon's bad luck to live in an area bordered by an ammunition dump, a flightline loading area and the 26th Marine Regiment's command post. Ibid. 4/3 The survivors of the recon company are frightened but uncowed. 1975A. Price Our Man in Camelot v. 93 ‘He was a pilot in recon.’.. ‘Photographic reconnaissance,’ he explained. 1977‘E. McBain’ Long Time no See xiii. 208 Our recon patrol found an enemy base camp.
▪ IV. recon, n.2 Biol.|ˈriːkɒn|
[f. recombination + -on1.]
A piece of genetic material which can be exchanged but not divided by genetic recombination; thus the shortest piece which can be so exchanged.
1957S. Benzer in McElroy & Glass Symposium on Chem. Basis of Heredity 71 The unit of recombination will be defined as the smallest element in the one-dimensional array that is interchangeable..by genetic recombination. One such element will be referred to as a ‘recon’. 1969A. M. Campbell Episomes iii. 38 The ‘unit factor’ of the classical geneticist is replaceable by the muton, the recon, the cistron, or even a collection of linked cistrons, each in the appropriate operational context. 1978N. Jardine in Hookway & Pettit Action & Interpretation 122 The operons, cistrons, recons and mutons of the molecular geneticist. |