reconnaissance

English

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Alternative forms

• recce (abbreviation)
• recon (abbreviation)

Etymology

Borrowing from French reconnaissance (“recognition”)

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ɹɪˈkɒnəsəns/

• Audio (CA)

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Noun

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.

Translations

act of gathering information

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: (military) 偵察 (cmn), 侦察 (cmn) (zhēnchá), 選點 (cmn), 选点 (cmn) (xuǎndiǎn)

• Dutch: verkenning (nl) f
• Estonian: luure (et)
• Finnish: tiedustelu (fi)
• French: reconnaissance (fr) f
• German: Aufklärung (de) f, Kundschaft (de) f
• Greek: αναγνώριση (el) (anagnórisi) f

• Hebrew: סיור (he) (si'ûr)
• Italian: ricognizione (it) f
• Japanese: 偵察 (ja) (ていさつ, teisatsu)
• Lithuanian: žvalgyba (lt) f, žvalgymas (lt) m
• Polish: rekonesans (pl) m, zwiad (pl) m
• Romanian: recunoaștere (ro) f, cercetare (ro) f
• Russian: разведка (ru) (razvédka) f, рекогносцировка (ru) (rekognosciróvka) f
• Spanish: reconocimiento (es) m

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• Ukrainian: noun розвідка (rozvidka) f, adjective розвідувальний (rozviduval’nyj) m, розвідувальна (rozviduval’na) f, розвідувальне (rozviduval’ne) n
• Ukrainian: noun рекогносцировка (rekohnoscyrovka) f, adjective рекогносцировальний (rekohnoscyroval’nyj) m, рекогносцировальна (rekohnoscyroval’na) f, рекогносцировальне (rekohnoscyroval’ne) n
• Ukrainian: noun пласт (plast) m, пластування (plastuvannja) n, adjective пластовий (plastovyj) m, пластова (plastova) f, пластове (plastove) n

Related terms

• reconnoiter, reconnoitre

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French

Etymology

reconnaiss- (stem of reconnaître) + -ance

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ʁə.kɔ.nɛ.sɑ̃s/, X-SAMPA: /R\@.kO.nE.sA_~s/

• Audio (France, Paris)

  (file)

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

Noun

reconnaissance f (plural reconnaissances)

1. reconnaissance
2. recognition

Synonyms

• (reconnaissance): gratitude