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recon

noun
/ɹɪˈkɒn/UK/ˈɹikɑn/US

Etymology

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."

  1. derived from combīnātiō
  2. derived from combination
  3. inherited from combinacioun
  4. prefixed as recombination — “re + combination”
  5. formed as recon — “recombination + -on”

Definitions

  1. 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.

  2. reconnoiter.

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

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for recon. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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