reconnaissance

• recce (abbreviation)
• recon (abbreviation)

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

• IPA^(key): /ɹɪˈkɒnəsəns/

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reconnaissance (countable and uncountable, plural reconnaissances)

1. The act of scouting or exploring (especially military or medical) to gain information.
   • 1973, Arthur C. Clarke, Rendezvous with Rama:

     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.

• reconnoiter, reconnoitre

• reconnaissance on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

From reconnaiss- (present participle stem of reconnaître, cf. reconnaissant) + -ance. Compare also Medieval Latin recognōscentia (“a recognizing, acknowledgement”), Italian riconoscenza.

• IPA^(key): /ʁə.kɔ.nɛ.sɑ̃s/, /ʁə.kɔ.ne.sɑ̃s/

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• Homophone: reconnaissances
• Hyphenation: re‧co‧nnai‧ssance

reconnaissance f (plural reconnaissances)

1. reconnaissance
2. thankfulness

   Synonym: gratitude

3. recognition

• reconnaissance vocale

• “reconnaissance”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.