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reconnaissance

noun
/ɹɪˈkɒnɪsəns/

Etymology

Borrowed from French reconnaissance (“recognition”). Doublet of recognizance.

  1. borrowed from reconnaissance

Definitions

  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.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at reconnaissance. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at reconnaissance. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

5 hops · closes at reconnaissance

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

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