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noun
reconnaissance.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: US, countable, slang, uncountable
Topics: government, military, politics, war
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noun
A hairstyle in which the sides of the head are shaven and the crest is cropped close.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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noun
The smallest genetic unit that is capable of undergoing recombination.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: biology, genetics, medicine, natural-sciences, sciences
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verb
reconnoiter.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: US, slang
Topics: government, military, politics, war
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History
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."
Across languages
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