reconnaissance
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Etymology [edit]
Borrowing from French reconnaissance (“recognition”)
Pronunciation [edit]
Noun [edit]
reconnaissance (countable and uncountable; plural reconnaissances)
- 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.
- 1973, Arthur C. Clarke, Rendezvous with Rama
Translations [edit]
act of gathering information
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French [edit]
Etymology [edit]
reconnaiss- (stem of reconnaître) + -ance
Pronunciation [edit]
- IPA: /ʁə.kɔ.nɛ.sɑ̃s/, X-SAMPA: /R\@.kO.nE.sA_~s/
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Audio (France, Paris) (file) - Homophone: reconnaissances
- Hyphenation: re‧co‧nnai‧ssance
Noun [edit]
reconnaissance f (plural reconnaissances)
Synonyms [edit]
- (reconnaissance): gratitude