recon

plural recons

1. UScountableslanguncountablegovernmentReconnaissance.

   “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)

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   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

2. countableuncountableA hairstyle in which the sides of the head are shaven and the crest is cropped close.

present singular third person recons · participle present reconning · participle past reconned · past reconned

1. USslanggovernmentTo reconnoiter.

   Synonyms: recce

plural recons

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

plural recons

1. informalA reconstruction.

   A global multiproxy database for temperature reconstructions of the Common Era

   2017 July 12, <MrPostingRobot@kymhorsell.com>, “temp recons for past 2k years”, in alt.global-warming (Usenet)

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   You need to find out if a recon is necessary and get the op done asap in order for her to ski next season.

   2001 February 1, Clive Backham, “Top knee surgeons in UK?”, in rec.skiing.resorts.europe (Usenet)

   I presume you mean the existing stories -- or have you actually gotten the recons? Reconstructions of missing stories, that is, and the various episodes of incomplete stories.

   2001 March 7, LPPCQ Snarky, “last stop”, in alt.flame (Usenet)

   Don't be an idiot, he knew full well that Whites had invaded the Americas in 1493 (1492 was just a recon).

   2002 September 15, Wade Wofford, “White Paleo-Americsns:^([sic]) X Factor / Recent Finds in Paleoanthropology”, in alt.native (Usenet)

   Being as there won't be a recon meeting tomorrow, I guess we can discuss it via email.

   2014 July 23, Joshua Albert, “no meeting this week”, in EXO neutrons (Google Groups)

   Still using GT_3DT_Cartesian.xml for 3D recon, we found that sometimes the reconstructed images along partition direction were in the reverse order comparing with Siemens’s recon (with wrong slice positions), and also found there existed a code fragment to do the operation of “flip along E2”after FFT to image in gtPlusISMRMRDReconWorker3DT.h.

   2016 March 29, Sen Jia, “questions when using Gadgetron for 3D recon”, in Gadgetron (Google Groups)